The Hive is a 2008 Science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 made-for-television film, directed by Peter Manus and written by T.S. Cook

T.S. Cook

T.S. Cook , is an American screenwriter and producer, perhaps best known for writing The China Syndrome , sharing with Mike Gray and James Bridges, which garned him Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Golden Globe-nominations.-Early life:Thomas Steven Cook was born in Cleveland to Horace William, a...

. Starring Tom Wopat

Tom Wopat

Tom Wopat is an American actor and singer. He first achieved fame as Luke Duke in the long-running 1979 television series The Dukes of Hazzard, along with John Schneider. He also played Jeff, one of Cybill Shepherd's ex-husbands in the TV series Cybill.-Life and career:Wopat was born in Lodi,...

, Kal Weber and Mark Ramsey, the film follows a group of scientist

Scientist

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s who must deal with a swarm of man-eating ants feeding on the population, but eventually discover that something is controlling the ants. Part of the Maneater Series

Maneater (series)

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, it premiered on the Syfy

Syfy

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 on February 17, 2008. The film was released to DVD on August 5, 2008.

Cast

• Tom Wopat
  Tom Wopat
  Tom Wopat is an American actor and singer. He first achieved fame as Luke Duke in the long-running 1979 television series The Dukes of Hazzard, along with John Schneider. He also played Jeff, one of Cybill Shepherd's ex-husbands in the TV series Cybill.-Life and career:Wopat was born in Lodi,...
  
  as Bill
• Kal Weber as Dr. Horace "Len" Lennart
• Elizabeth Healey as Claire Dubois
• Mark Ramsey as Cortez
• Jessica Reavis as Debs
• Elizabeth Bodner as Ying
• Pisek Intarakanchit as Chang
• Nicky Tamrong as Minister Zhing

External links

• DVD Talk review