The sci-fi film D.A.R.Y.L. is getting an upgrade, 35 years after its debut. Paramount Television Studios is developing a D.A.R.Y.L. TV show for TBS from writers Jody Lambert and Matt Oberg.
The series, described as a single-camera comedy, will star Tony Hale (Toy Story 4, Harley Quinn) as the titular character, who is now a grown adult. D.A.R.Y.L. joins a number of other series in development for TNT and TBS, including The Fall and Liar's Club.
The official synopsis for the show reads:
A half-hour comedy that picks up where Paramount’s 1985 feature left off. What if a top-secret, 10-year-old human weapon grew up to be a 44-year-old guy just trying to keep up with a world that he was never designed for? And what if the story morphed from an ’80s sci-fi adventure movie about a child with a computer in his skull … into a single-camera comedy starring Tony Hale? The boy everyone wanted … has become the man no one needs … in the TV adaptation nobody asked for.
The original D.A.R.Y.L. film starred Barret Oliver as the titular character, an artificial intelligence housed in a robotic body resembling a ten-year-old boy. How he navigates life as an adult, and how the series will adapt to a comedy format, remains to be seen.
(Via The Hollywood Reporter.)