Producers Lynda Obst and Ridley Scott are planning to bring the ongoing Ebola outbreak to television witha series based on the 1994 bestselling non-fiction book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Online, however, people are not reacting to the news well.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the rights for the novel were obtained 20 years ago, but the recent Ebola outbreak has made the subject more relevant than ever.

"I think it's the speed with which it kills that makes the disease so frightening," Obst explained. "People hoped it would stay in some remote part of the world, but that's a fantasy in the modern world. The modern world makes up one big connected family."

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When THR shared this interview on Twitter, however, viewers promptly disagreed.

Some claimed to have seen the idea coming, though that did not take away from the wave of disapproval.

The Hot Zone book chronicled the disease up into 1989. Scott originally intended to developed the book as a film starring Jodie Foster, though the project never came to fruition.

Writers David Sucker and Jim Hart are currently at work modernizing the original screenplay and Obst hopes to bring the new program to television as soon as possible.

"A limited series is a great way to do this because you don't have to limit it to a three-act structure like you do with film," explained Obst.

The currently untitled project, which could very well adapt the name of the book, will be produced by Fox TV Studios. It has yet to receive a network, release date, or cast.

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