ABC’s Resurrection sees dead people come alive again, but it’s not related to The Returned. Except it is.
The drama, which premieres Sunday at 9/8c, is based on Jason Mott’s best-selling book The Returned about people who come back from the dead. That’s not to be confused with the critically acclaimed, similarly themed French series on Sundance Channel, The Returned, which is based on the French film Les Revenants and is being adapted by Lost‘s Carlton Cuse for A&E, or the fact that Resurrection refers to its walking dead as The Returned.
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“It is kind of confusing, we’ll admit that,” Resurrection executive producer Michele Fazekas tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. “But even though the premise is the same, I think we all have different takes on it and different stories.”
Set in Arcadia, Mo., Resurrection follows Jacob (Landon Gimenez), a dead 8-year-old boy who wakes up in a rice paddy field in rural China. With the help of immigration …
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