Brain Implants (New 2025 show probably but not Severance)?

[Dave]

I was visiting RHS Wisley on Saturday and the Hilltop there was dressed as a film set. Filming was beginning on Sunday. I think it has to be some kind of SF Film because it was dressed as a medical clinic (I've forgotten it's name due to the server crash, sorry) but it was named for a woman who died in 2023 of Alzheimer's, and whose son went on the find a cure for the disease. There were wall displays with a fake history of drug development and brain implants. These were incredibly detailed considering they will only provide a background. The toilets became the entrance to lifts, with a basement that doesn't exist. There was a false reception and the library was dressed as a... library. There was a map on the wall and it shows this clinic was meant to be near Dulles airport, Fairfax, Virginia. The surrounding gardens will likely feature in the filming too as there was a cherry-picker outside with cameras. There was also a large number of other vehicles belonging to the film crew parked up beyond the orchards.

Does anyone know what film it could be? I looked at the lists of films in production, pre-production and development hell, but can find nothing that would match. It also doesn't seem to match any book that I've read or heard of. I did an internet search on the, now forgotten clinic name, but it came up blank. It may be a TV series, but whatever it is, I'm very curious now. My guess would be (because of the mention of brain implants) some kind of medical treatment gone wrong thing, maybe like Terminal Man or Coma?

I did discover that quite a lot of 1960's and '70's Doctor Who was filmed in, near and around that part of Surrey, and Shepperton Studios is located close enough to make that part of Surrey easily accessible for "country" locations.

However, while looking for "new films, new options and rumours," I did discover The Six Million Dollar Man, Avatar 4 and 5, Star Trek: Section 31, Superman: Legacy, Wolf Man, Jurassic World Rebirth, 28 Years Later, Karate Kid, The Batman Part II, the Fantastic Four, Captain America: Brave New World, Frankenstein, Avengers: Doomsday, Scream 7 and many more.

I first posted this ^ in the Film Forum last year but I now think that it's more likely to be a TV Show.

I've been watching the Apple TV+ series Severance about a company, Lumens, who have workers who have a brain chip implanted that separates their memory inside work to their memory at home and outside of work. For a while, I thought that season 2 of this show might be the answer to my query. It fits the bill as is set in the present day, or the near future, and an off-kilter thriller rather than an out-and-out SF show. However,I don't know where Severance is meant to be set, but from what I have seen, the location of the company is under snow all year-long (and the filming at Wisley was during last Summer.) Also, IMDb says that the film locations for the series are all within New York State.

On the other hand, these kinds of series (and films) tend to come along in waves - ten animations about talking ants all at the same time etc. There is a Netflix series called Dark Foals that is a drama about spies, and appears to have a striking similarity to the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, if nothing else than in the names. Anyhow, I therefore wondered whether their were other TV series in production about "Brain Implants"?

 

[mosaix]

Brian?

 

[Dave]

Brian?

Not Brian. Brain. I'll change it.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

"Brian implants" now there's a whole new concept.
Who wouldn't want a Brian Blessed implanted if you needed to shout?
Or a Brian Cox if you wanted to study astrophysics?

 

[Dave]

The new series of Black Mirror began with Common People and when woman needed part of her brain removed, I thought to myself, this will be it! But alas no, I still can't find it.

 

[Dave]

Bump -

I'm still looking for this. It could be TV or film but was being filmed in October 2024. It isn't Severance S1 or S2 or any Dark Mirror episode. The film The Six Billion Dollar Man is still in development hell, so not that. The TV series Intelligence and Made for Love are too old. For the same reason it also can't be The Feed S1. There is a S2. in development but that looks unlikely too.