2999

2999 (pronounced as "Two-thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine") is a British-American dystopian science fiction media franchise based on the film directed by Carl Andy, which he co-wrote with Donald James. The franchise is set within a world ruled by an all-encompasing government that has removed all national distinctions of the world and enforces it's ideology via propaganda and censorship all while covering it's true nature. Meanwhile a resistance grows thanks to a man who discovers an underground bunker containing relics of the past before the takeover, thus leading to a domino effect and an extensive war between the resistance and the regime. The franchise began with the film 2999, released on 22 December 1976 by United Artists and ITC, the film grossed £854,000. (about $5,395,887.52 in today's US money) In 1980, ITC and James developed a follow-up miniseries called 2999: The Fight for Freedom as a sequel to the film. This was follwed by 3000, a TV series that ran for two seasons from 1983 to 1985. A reboot series was made in 2010 in a collaboration between ITV (who owns the ITC library) and ABC Family (now known as Freeform), which ran for four seasons. Also consistent with the same story are a variety of novels, video games and comic books.
The series' world governement has been analyzed as a metaphor for tyranical governments past and present, like Nazi Germany and more notably, the Soviet Union, because of this, the latter and many Soviet satellite states like East Germany and Poland, banned the film and it's respective TV follow-ups until the Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many dissidents who had watched the film and series through black market copies consider them influential in their struggle for freedom and eventual success in the transition of power.
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Category:2999
Category:Mass media franchises introduced in 1976
Category:Mass surveillance
Category:Mass media franchises
Category:Science fiction franchises
Category:Dystopian fiction
Category:ITV Studios franchises