Trent Reznor and HBO Team Up For ‘Year Zero’ Mini Series

Trent Reznor is one cool dude. Not only did he turn it up to 11 with Nine Inch Nails and How To Destroy Angels,  but he also helped score the soundtrack to the upcoming movie, “The Social Network.”

As if writing music for a movie wasn’t enough, Trent announced today in an interview that HBO and the BBC have decided to move forward with developing  “Year Zero,” a mini-series which has been rumored for a long time since the album and reality game of the same name was released.

It’s official. Trent Reznor is better than everybody.

Year Zero Album Cover

“We are in  pre-production with HBO and BBC to do a miniseries,” Reznor said Monday. “It’s exciting. I probably shouldn’t say too much about it except that I understand that there’s a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. “ We’re writing drafts back and forth. So it’s very much alive and incubating at the moment.
” It’s been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we’re writing drafts back and forth. So it’s very much alive and incubating at the moment.”

“BBC [Worldwide Productions] was the first to show interest and came on as the studio,” Reznor explained. “Our writer is Daniel Knauf from ‘Carnivàle’ and he’s busy with pages right now and revising the overall world Bible. It’s been an interesting collaborative effort but I’ve learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace.”

I, for one, can’t wait for this. It sounds amazing and you already know it’s good cause Trent is involved! Hopefully it can get past the pilot phase and move on to full-on production.

If you living under a rock in 2007, Year Zero was Nine Inch Nail’s follow up album to With Teeth and was, in my opinion, one of NIN’s better albums. It had two singles that we played frequently on KROQ, ‘Survivalism’ and ‘Capital G.’

The album was also very special as Trent developed a whole alternative reality game behind it also named ‘Year Zero.’ It told the story of a distant future where the Christian government controls every aspect of human life. Many internet activist groups such as Art Is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative attempt to overrule the new government by sending messages back in time to prevent the new dictatorship and upcoming apocalypse from occurring.

You can read the full article at the LA Times.

Be sure to pick up the new Social Network Soundtrack which is now available in digital form here.