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The Human Centipede: the Series
By Gary Weinrib

Author’s note: I have not seen the movie The Human Centipede (First Sequence)—just a couple of clips.

Where do you go after not just one, but three of the grossest movies ever? How about…television.

Tom Six, director of the insanely grotesque “The Human Centipede (First Sequence)” (and the forthcoming two sequels which he insures will only be worse), has been asked to help develop a television series for the SyFy Network.

“At first, I thought they were joking,” Six reported. “How can you possibly show something this intense on television?”

How indeed? SyFy’s answer: the same way the Korean war was made into a series—make it a sit-com.

“I couldn’t help wonder who in their right mind would laugh at something like this?” Six continued. “But you know what? The more I think about it, the more I realize that this could really work. Granted, my movie didn’t have an ounce of humor in it, but behind the scenes, we did laugh a lot. So there clearly is some laughter potential there. Maybe.”

“Obviously, we’d have to tone down the graphic aspects a lot,” said Randy Prince, a SyFy executive who has taken charge of the project. “But there really are some humorous aspects that could come into play.”

Really? I considered asking Prince to expound upon this, but then I wondered, Do I really want to hear this? Well, I had a job to do, so I forged ahead and asked.

“We thought it would be fun to consider issues like dating. In the first season, we plan to have Molly (who is the second segment in the centipede) date someone from the neighborhood. If the show takes off, she’ll get pregnant and give birth next season.”

So there’s sex involved. Wait, how is there supposed to be sex involved?

“We probably won’t go into much detail about the mechanics and so forth,” Prince said with a wry grin. “But there are a lot of questions that arise in the context of a human centipede, and while some of those questions are covered in Tom’s trilogy, there are many that aren’t.”

Do I dare ask what some of these questions might be? For you, dear reader, I asked.

“Well, one of the issues that the movies ignored—but we’ll be exploring on the show—is the obvious question of what happens if one of the segments becomes a vampire? Towards the end of the first season, we’ll see the fourth segment (an Italian immigrant named Antonio) get bitten by a vampire, causing him to become one of the undead.”

I’m surprised this issue won’t be covered in at least one of the last two movies in the trilogy.

“So now you have this portion of the centipede which needs blood, but the front segment doesn’t have the fangs to do the job. What happens?”

Hilarity ensues, I’m sure.

The second film, The Human Centipede (Full Sequence), is scheduled to be completed 2011, and the third might be out around 2013. The SyFy network hopes to have the series begin in the middle of the 2011 television season.

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