The surveillance nation reaches its furthest extreme in The Last Enemy , a recent BBC miniseries that should be fare to the U.S. presently . After a major terrorist incident in London , the government put out required biometric ID cards , puts every citizen under 24 - time of day surveillance and implant ticket into people that restrict their exemption of move . And a new Hugh Jackman labor looks rig to research new themes of surety versus freedom .
The Last Enemy , a conscientious objector - production with WGBH in Boston , looks talky but still exciting . The master eccentric , Stephen Ezard , follow back to England after age abroad and discover that a terrorist incident has led to massive Modern clampdown . He gets roped into helping to develop TIA , a mysterious new undertaking that wants to put every citizen into a huge database , run by individual bay window . And he watch that 1,000 citizenry died as a outcome of a underground experiment with implantable tag that were suppose to pass harmlessly through their consistence after a distich of years .
Meanwhile , Hugh Jackman isdeveloping a unexampled projectwith Virgin Comics , which he hopes will also twist into a motion picture fomite for him . Nowhere Man , co - compose by Eli Stone creator Marc Guggenheim , is about a character similar to Will Smith ’s in I Am Legend , who hold up in a future dystopia where people have “ traded privacy for security system . ” [ The Last Enemy ]
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