Trent Reznor to make TV series based on Nine Inch Nails album

With his drones and hums filling David Fincher's new Facebook movie , Trent Reznor has revealed plans for a television series based on Nine Inch Nails' 2007 album, Year Zero. "It's exciting," Reznor said in an interview with the LA Times . "I understand that there's a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing [but] ... it's very much alive and incubating at the moment." The proposed project is a co-production between HBO and BBC Worldwide. Year Zero, NIN's sixth studio album, presented a grim sci-fi portait of the year 2022, after a nuclear war between the US and Iran and the ascent of an American "Bureau of Morality". The LP was accompanied by an expansive online game and, eventually, a remix album. At the time, Reznor called it "the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist" . In a sense, that movie may yet come to exist. Reznor has partnered with Daniel Knauf, creator of the imaginative (and prematurely cancelled) TV series Carnivale , plus producers Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, An Inconvenient Truth) and Kevin Kelly Brown (Roswell). "It's been an interesting collaborative effort but I've learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace," Reznor said. "It cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we're writing drafts back and forth." Describing a possible TV series in 2008, Reznor said it would "ideally" run for two years. "It's the most exciting thing on the horizon," he said then. "It's the thing that when I wake up in the morning it makes me say, 'God it would be cool if that happened.'"