What Is Cybergeddon?

Anthony E. Zuiker, creator of the phenomenally successful CSI TV franchise, has switched his attention to the online world with a new Internet mini-series called Cybergeddon.

Cybergeddon is an ambitious new action thriller series based around hacking. The ninety-five minute series recently appeared for the first time on Yahoo!.

Cybergeddon Trailer

The series stars Olivier Martinez and Missy Peregrym in a show that features the kind of big budget production values and storyline normally reserved for the big screen.

Missy Peregrym portrays FBI Special Agent Chloe Jocelyn, who ends up going on the run having been framed for a crime she didn't commit.

Olivier Martinez portrays Gustov Dobreff, a hacker and cyber criminal who looks like the mastermind behind the crime and the framing of Peregrym.

In the past Internet series have generally involved simply displaying something that would normally been shown on TV or at the cinema on a smaller screen.

With Cybergeddon, however, Zuiker tried to create an experience that was more "specific to the device".

The series is being shown in chapters, just a few minutes long, over a period of just three days.

Additional content based around the Cybergeddon episodes will also be released which will flesh out the plot and improve character development.

They have also been produced specifically for the Internet. Zuiker commented: "We had a beginning, middle and end every 10 minutes.

Very visceral, very fast, very character driven with multiple screens, and a score, and look to really emulate the viewing and navigational experience people have online.

 I wanted to challenge the movie industry to do things that had nothing to do with the theatre.

I wanted to do a movie that was free globally in 25 countries and 10 languages around the world anytime, anywhere, on any device."

He said that he hoped his new strategy of distribution for Cybergeddon would "crack the DNA of how to tell stories online and bypass the theatre as a behavioural shift happens" adding that this may be the way in which we watch all of our drama a few years from now.

 Cybergeddon

In Cybergeddon cyberwarfare, cybercrime, and cyberterrorism are used to attack the "mind" of the United States by its enemies.

 The US has a population of approximately 317,000,000. Of those people around two-thirds own some sort of electronic device.

The Department Of Defense (DOD) is probed millions of times per day and cyber-crime accounts for over $600 million per year. The United States’ population is vulnerable.

 Threats can come from anywhere, whether it's a kid with a laptop or a foreign government with huge resources.

 Cybergeddon follows FBI Special Agent Chloe Jocelyn who is forced to go on the run after being framed for a crime.

If you'd like to find out more about Cybergeddon and watch it online, you can do so here: Cybergeddon