There is very little information regarding W.E.I.R.D. World, a failed television pilot from 1995 directed by William Malone. With a creative team that consisted of writer/producer A.L. Katz, co-producer F.A. Miller, writer/co-producer Scott Nimerfro, writer/co-executive producer Gilbert Adler, and executive producers Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver, and Robert Zemeckis, it seemed like this project was destined to go places. Not sure exactly what happened but needless to say it was not picked up for a series and has pretty much disappeared entirely. You can't even find a bootleg on the internet of this thing. According to Christopher Smith (reviewer jellyneckr on IMDb, the only one to review the movie on that site), the pilot bears similarities to the live-action Tales from the Crypt series. This can't be all that surprising since everybody I named a few sentences back were all part of the creative team for that show, too. Hell, even Malone wrote and directed an episode or two. They even adapted a story from Bill Gaines, co-creator and writer of the Tales from the Crypt comic book series, and co-editor/publisher of EC Comics and Mad Magazine. It seems to me that what the team was trying to do was capture the success of the Tales from the Crypt formula using science fiction rather than horror stories. The pilot stars Dana Ashbrook (from Twin Peaks), character actor Marshall Bell (Kuato from Total Recall), Kathryn Morris (of Cold Case), Gina Ravara (of The Closer), Jim True-Frost (of The Wire), Tony Cox (Marcus from Bad Santa), and Ed O'Niell. By the way, W.E.I.R.D. stands for the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development. These three clips are all I can find on YouTube.
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