A Spring Break­ers TV series is in the works

James Franco’s turn as a corn­rowed, gold-teethed drug deal­er gave Har­mo­ny Korine’s Spring Break­ers some of its most mem­o­rable moments, includ­ing a drawled vision of end­less rev­el­ry – ​“Spraaang breaaaak for-ever.”

Accord­ing to Dead­line, the par­ty real­ly is set to con­tin­ue. Upcom­ing stream­ing plat­form Black­pills has announced that it will be bas­ing a new dig­i­tal series on the film. The adap­ta­tion has been com­mis­sioned through the orig­i­nal feature’s pro­duc­ers, Chris Han­ley and Fer­nan­do Sulichin, though Korine has said he will not be return­ing to the director’s chair.

Cast­ing has yet to take place and the plot is being kept hush-hush, but we’re not expect­ing much devi­a­tion from the pre­vi­ous char­ac­ters and premise – a group of soused mil­len­ni­als enjoy a scant­i­ly clad, bassline-heavy hol­i­day that turns sour. Patrick Holz­man, Black­pills co-founder, has also made the intrigu­ing com­ment that the series will be released on an ​“uncon­ven­tion­al dig­i­tal format”.

We’ve been rack­ing our brains try­ing to work out what this mys­tery for­mat might be. Maybe a vir­tu­al real­i­ty expe­ri­ence that drops you in the mid­dle of all the beach­side hedo­nism? Or an inter­ac­tive sto­ry – an approach that Net­flix is report­ed tri­alling? Or per­haps the folks at Black­pills will chan­nel the inno­va­tion of BoJack Horseman’s Quentin Taran­tuli­no and opt for a bi-month­ly curat­ed box of Spring Break­ers snacks.

Giv­en Black­pills’ fond­ness for short scripts – they’re also work­ing with Luc Besson on a mobile-native series called Killer’s School, which will run for 10 episodes, each 10-min­utes in length – we’re hedg­ing our bets that Spring Break­ers will fol­low suit.