{"id":2576,"date":"2014-07-17T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/07\/17\/syfys-ascension-departs-from-jason-blums-microbudget-film-formula\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:02:44","slug":"syfys-ascension-departs-from-jason-blums-microbudget-film-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/07\/17\/syfys-ascension-departs-from-jason-blums-microbudget-film-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Syfy\u2019s \u2018Ascension\u2019 Departs From Jason Blum\u2019s Microbudget Film Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Anthony D&#8217;Alessandro \/Deadline<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Syfy\u2018s miniseries <em>Ascension\u00a0<\/em>continues\u00a0Jason Blum\u2018s development of intriguing TV projects, and unlike the low budget horror thriller films he\u2019s made his mark with, i.e.\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Purge<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Insidious,<\/em>he\u00a0admitted \u201cThe budget for this series wasn\u2019t as low as some of my movies. I\u2019m new to TV. My long-term goal is (creating) lower budget TV series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Chalk it up to the demands of the sci-fi genre. \u00a0Originally Blum\u00a0was looking to have the all the action for the\u00a0600-person deep-space travel story to take place in one location, just like his haunted house pics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe thought this was going to be a low budget show, but it grew to be the size of The Queen Mary. The scope of the show is enormous and the only way 600 people (in deep space) can live is if you have crops, and different living quarters,\u201d explained Blum.<span id=\"more-773452\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe reason why I advocate lower budgets is so the filmmaker can have more creative control. \u00a0And luckily with\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Ascension,\u00a0<\/em>Phil had creative control with more money,\u201d added the producer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Ascension<\/em>, which debuts on November 24 for six episodes, tells the story about a spaceship of 600 people that\u2019s launched on a covert mission by the Kennedy Administration in 1963, in hopes of reaching a new world. The miniseries begins 50 years into their journey, and there\u2019s a been a murder on the ship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Like HBO\u2019s AIDs drama\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Normal Heart<\/em>, which Blum also executive produced,<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Ascension<\/em>\u00a0is also outside his horror wheelhouse. What piqued Blum\u2019s interest was the originality of EP\u00a0Philip Levens\u2018 story idea, which was inspired by the Orion military project under JFK. \u00a0Levens pointed out that Kennedy squashed the development of Orion soon after Bay of Pigs as the military began equipping the spaceship with weapons. \u201cHe was terrified that they were turning it into\u00a0a Death Star,\u201d said Levens. \u00a0The initial idea of Orion was a spaceship fueled by nuclear propulsion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Added Blum about his feature and TV development p.o.v., \u201cWhen filmmakers pitch me, I don\u2019t tell them that I\u201dm looking for something scary. \u00a0We do things that are different. \u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Jem and the Holograms,\u00a0<\/em>one of our next projects, is far from scary. \u00a0I responded to the originality and Phil\u2019s notion with\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Ascension<\/em>\u00a0was something I have never heard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony D&#8217;Alessandro \/Deadline Syfy\u2018s miniseries Ascension\u00a0continues\u00a0Jason Blum\u2018s development of intriguing TV projects, and unlike the low budget horror thriller films he\u2019s made his mark with, i.e.\u00a0The Purge\u00a0and\u00a0Insidious,he\u00a0admitted \u201cThe budget for this series wasn\u2019t as low as some of my movies. I\u2019m new to TV. My long-term goal is (creating) lower budget TV series.\u201d Chalk it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/07\/17\/syfys-ascension-departs-from-jason-blums-microbudget-film-formula\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Syfy\u2019s \u2018Ascension\u2019 Departs From Jason Blum\u2019s Microbudget Film Formula - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/07\/17\/syfys-ascension-departs-from-jason-blums-microbudget-film-formula\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Syfy\u2019s \u2018Ascension\u2019 Departs From Jason Blum\u2019s Microbudget Film Formula - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anthony D&#8217;Alessandro \/Deadline Syfy\u2018s miniseries Ascension\u00a0continues\u00a0Jason Blum\u2018s development of intriguing TV projects, and unlike the low budget horror thriller films he\u2019s made his mark with, i.e.\u00a0The Purge\u00a0and\u00a0Insidious,he\u00a0admitted \u201cThe budget for this series wasn\u2019t as low as some of my movies. 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