Syfy has ordered “Incorporated,” a pilot from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl Street Productions, the cabler announced Monday.
The futuristic espionage thriller is also produced by CBS Television Studios and Universal Cable Productions.
The pilot, set in a future where companies have unlimited power, follows an executive, Ben Larson, who’s forced to change his identity in order to infiltrate a cut-throat corporate world to save the woman he loves. While doing so, he will take on the entire system with deadly consequences.
The dystopian future of the series will explore contemporary trends — the growing influence of corporations and private interests in Washington; the slow but steady dismantling of the public sector; and the increase of an substantial amount of wealth by an ever-shrinking minority — bringing viewers into a future world where the ethical boundaries that we know have been completely redrawn.
“Syfy is working with the best
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The futuristic espionage thriller is also produced by CBS Television Studios and Universal Cable Productions.
The pilot, set in a future where companies have unlimited power, follows an executive, Ben Larson, who’s forced to change his identity in order to infiltrate a cut-throat corporate world to save the woman he loves. While doing so, he will take on the entire system with deadly consequences.
The dystopian future of the series will explore contemporary trends — the growing influence of corporations and private interests in Washington; the slow but steady dismantling of the public sector; and the increase of an substantial amount of wealth by an ever-shrinking minority — bringing viewers into a future world where the ethical boundaries that we know have been completely redrawn.
“Syfy is working with the best