Need for Speed was coming to the small screen: how was the TV series canceled?
Craig Lieberman, former producer and television consultant, revealed on his YouTube channel a background related to the production of one TV series based on Need For Speed, which should have seen the light in the mid-2000s. As a consultant for Need For Speed Underground, Lieberman proposed the idea to IT’S AT, and was also greeted with enthusiasm.
The series, simply titled “Need For Speed”, provided for teams to compete by assembling their vehicles in challenges originating from the games in the series. They had to be timed in a race and then their performances and means would be judged by a jury.
The production budget was rather inconvenient: 6.4 million dollars, a very high figure for the period, which acted as a deterrent along with the large amount of car and race-based shows of the time, to the point that even MTV couldn’t fit in. Thus, Need For Speed never made it to the small screen, but it did come to the big screen in 2014, with a movie which did not convince critics at all.
Source: GamesRadar
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