Maybe you recall Guillermo del Toro’s 1997 sci-fi horror Mimic – a classic tale of scientists genetically engineering cockroaches in an effort to save all the children and then, accidentally, making said cockroaches way worse than they were before. Well, it’s being adapted for TV with Paul W.S. Anderson (all the Resident Evils) to direct.
According to Deadline, the series will be based on the same book that the original film was based on, so you can ignore those direct-to-TV sequels, and Guillermo del Toro is not involved at all. Instead, the TV adaptation will be written by Jim Danger Gray (Orange is the New Black, Hannibal), who intends to keep it light:
Body horror, the anxiety of ‘a bug’ living inside of us, the death of truth, the denial of science and the rise of personal entitlement are at the heart of our show as it examines how society is eaten alive by an invasion that is laying bare its greatest insecurities and failures.
Topical.
The adaptation is still in early development, so there is no release date or cast information, yet.
If you were hoping to relive the 90s magic, the original Mimic film doesn’t appear to be available on Netflix or Showmax at the moment. Which means you’re missing out on Norman Reedus’ film debut (13 years before The Walking Dead), unless you can find some other means of acquiring it.