The great thing about time travel, it appears, is that you'll always get another chance to try and make everything turn out well in the end. Deadline is reporting that Syfy has given a pilot order for a series based on 12 Monkeys, Terry Gilliam's time-travel movie starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.

That's the good news – well, arguably good news, depending on how you feel about Syfy's slate of original dramas. Unfortunately, as all fans of 12 Monkeys already know, things never turn out the way you want them to when you go back in time. And that's not the show's only time-jumping drawback: It's being penned by two writers from Fox's failed attempt at its own time-travel television series, Terra Nova.

Now, the involvement of Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett – who wrote the script on spec, only for it to get the attention of The Dark Knight producer Charles Roven, who also produced the Gilliam movie – doesn't necessarily doom the production. They also wrote for the CW's Nikita, which is a far more enjoyable, less nonsensical show. But considering how poorly Terra Nova dealt with the sci-fi elements of its backstory and mythology – and how amazingly dull the show managed to make its central "rebooting civilization in prehistoric times" core concept – we can only hope that the 12 Monkeys pilot will owe more to the movie than their previous experience in the genre.

Of course, there will doubtless be those concerned with the very idea of remaking a classic like 12 Monkeys, claiming it sacrilege and disrespectful of Gilliam's work. However, those people might do well to remember that 1995 flick was itself a remake of La Jetée, a 1962 short constructed from still photographs by director Chris Marker. Apparently, time-travel stories mean that you can always go back to the beginning and start over when necessary.