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Frequency: The Movie & The Series

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Have you ever watched the movie 'Frequency'?

Before you read ahead be warned of minor spoilers.

Well if you haven't then you have missed a lot. The movie that released in April of 2000 and starred Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest), Dennis Quaid and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost) was pretty great in so many ways. The story was new and different and the acting of the two lead actors, Caviezel and Quaid was just great, Caviezel more than Quaid in my opinion.

The Movie

John Sullivan (Caviezel) who still mourned the death of his father thirty years prior to the events of the movie, still lives in the house where he grew up. One of these days he starts messing around with his father's old radio and begins transmission. Due to you know Sci-Fi stuff, he makes contact with his father exactly 30 years prior to that night, one day before the death of his father. After denial on both sides, more on the side of the father they both realize whatever communication they have is real and they are both who they say they are, and John warns his father of the circumstances of his death, As these circumstances materialize, the father, Frank Sullivan realizes what his son informed him off was true and gets to safety. This of course like in most time travelling TV and movie predictions creates a rippling effect in the time line leading to the death of John's mother at the hands of a serial killer days after his father's survival.

The communications continue throughout the movie sorting out one effect at a time and solving problems until the movie comes to a very decent ending.

The movie was one of the better movies in its year. It has 7.3 out of 10 rating on IMDB with over eighty thousand votes.

The Series

Now it is sixteen years past the release of the movie and the CW is giving us a new series with the same title this fall and of course a similar story. The core difference that we know of between the movie and the series is that Peyton List (The Tomorrow People & Lisa Snart on The Flash) will be playing the role of one Raimy Sullivan daughter of Frank Sullivan (Riley Smith). Other than that we just hope it is decent compared to the movie. I am not getting my hopes up especially that I am not expecting Riley Smith to do a job as fine as that of Caviezel in the movie, but if she does half the great job he did, I will be fine with the series.

Of course I am also expecting a prolonging of the story to make sure it goes for an entire season and probably more than one.

Here is the plot outline for the new CW series:

Detective Raimy Sullivan discovers that she is able to speak to her deceased father Frank Sullivan by ham radio. They forge a new connection and work together on an unresolved murder case. Complications arise from the "butterfly effect".
CW's Frequency is set to premiere on the 5th of October.

The Trailers

Checkout the trailers to both the series and the movie below:

       
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