Creator Todd Komarnicki Discusses His New Mini-Series EARTH ABIDES on MGM+

Todd Komarnicki is a prolific writer, producer and director of film and television as well as an acclaimed novelist.

He is back today to talk about a new streaming mini-series EARTH ABIDES. After months of isolation, the main character Isherwood Williams, learns that most of the world has fallen to a mysterious illness. Yet despite his instincts to further isolate, he leads the charge to develop a new civilization. This isn’t science fiction, this films brings the reality of seeing a new world.

If you are not familiar with Todd Komarnicki’s work, let’s recap as his screenplays include Sully directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks and was a 2016 AFI Top Ten Film. The Professor and the Madman, starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn. He has also written Perfect Stranger starring Bruce Willis and Halle Berry.

And he co-produced the Christmas blockbuster Elf, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Jon Favreau, which has become a yearly Christmas movie favorite.

Ladies and gentlemen, EARTH ABIDES is a very powerful 6 episode mini-series. It’s about survival, rebirth and hopefully restoring society better than before.

We have ask ourselves, if everyone on Earth died and only a few people were left to start over, what laws apply and which laws don’t. Very complex, but EARTH ABIDES in some ways gives us some answers and even more questions.

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