Emmerich Plotting ’2012′ TV Series

Not content to decimate the world over and over again on the big screen, director Roland Emmerich is plotting to take his world destruction to network television.

Emmerich tells Entertainment Weekly that a follow-up to the upcoming “2012″ is in the works, with “24″ executive producer Howard Gordon involved. The film picks up where the disaster movie leaves off, on a post-apocalyptic Earth:

The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster. It is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating. (2012 writer/producer) Harold Kloser and I came up with the idea and we have the luxury of having a producer on the film who is a big TV producer, Mark Gordon. We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’ I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.

Gordon notes that ABC has a hole in their schedule, right where “Lost” is currently, while there’s no official comment from ABC at this time.

Roland might want to look at NBC’s upcoming “Day One,” where an unknown calamity takes out humanity’s infrastructure and forces them to start from scratch. Will people want dueling “we’re just starting over” shows, or will Emmerich find out it really is easier to destroy than create?