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In March of 2007, ''Kerrang! Radio'' reported that "Reznor admitted he's already in talks about a movie version of his upcoming album, a concept piece, with part two scheduled next year." Reznor said that he was more interested in a television project rather than a film and that he had a producer and had met with writers. On August 14, 2007, Reznor announced that he and his creative team would soon be taking the concept to television networks to try and make some sort of deal: ''"We're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the main people, and we'll see what happens."'' [http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k=48608] On June 8, 2008, ''The New York Times'' reported that "Mr. Reznor has been working with Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime producing partner, to create a cable TV series to tell the entire story." [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin#]
On April 2, 2009, Reznor announced via a short Twitter post that "YZ is alive". In a 2025 newsletter, comic writer Grant Morrison wrote: "I worked with [Reznor] on a TV adaptation of his Year Zero album concept which, like so many of these things, never happened because the studio decided to make some other shite everyone’s forgotten," which provided context for a July 14, 2009, tweet in which Reznor wrote: "Just had another interesting and enlightening conversation with Grant and Kristan Morrison. Repercussions to follow." On September 28, 2010, ''The LA Times'' reported that the ''Year Zero'' television series detailed in the above ''NY Times'' article was going into pre-production, with Daniel Knauf as a writer and Lawrence Bender's team as staff, and that the miniseries would be handled by BBC America and broadcast on HBO. [http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/09/28/trent-reznor-and-hbo-moving-forward-with-year-zero-sci-fi-series/] On March 10, 2011, Trent confirmed on the nin.com board that work on the TV series was still in progress. [http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,1227855,1227855#msg-1227855]
On June 24, 2011, ''Pitchfork Magazine'' had a section of news stating that Jim Uhls, the man who had written the screenplay for ''Fight Club'' and the screenplay for the 2008 film ''Jumper'', was chosen to write the script for the series. On December 23, 2011 in an interview by ''The Guardian'' Trent is quoted as follows about the 10-part HBO mini-series, which is based on ''Year Zero'': "''I chose not to write it myself because I don't know how to do that. But now I'm thinking I should have. Somebody's got to do it, right? How hard can it be?''" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/21/trent-reznor-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack?newsfeed=true] On January 11, 2012 [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/members/433-Euphemism a user on Echoingthesound] said that Jim Uhls confirmed for him via Facebook that he was working on the ''Year Zero'' TV series ("''I've been away from FB for awhile. Now that I see it, I can answer. I am currently working on Year Zero. [...]''" [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/139-Random-NIN-Thoughts?p=13642#post13642])