Future Shock: Bryan Singer Discusses His New Web Series, 'H+' The day has not yet arrived where people can have microchips installed in their bodies that connect them to the Internet, then go haywire and nearly annihilate the human race. But Bryan Singer is happy to hasten that future along, even if it poses risks to the media in which he customarily operates. Mr. Singer, the director of films including "The Usual Suspects," "X-Men" and "Valkyrie," is the producer of the new Web series "H+," which will make its debut Aug. 8 on YouTube. Created by John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso, "H+" tells a not-so-far-fetched story in which millions of people have communications chips installed in their bodies, and are then wiped out by a virus attacking the chips. Shuttling back and forth in time, "H+" follows the survivors of that devastation while exploring the origins of the technology that caused it. While viewers contemplate the amalgamation of man and machine anticipated in "H+," Mr. Singer said he had been thinking about the blending of serialized drama and the Web. "At some point these mediums are going to merge and there's going to be some kind of sea change in the way we observe content," he said in a telephone interview. With a laugh, he added: "I just hope it doesn't make people not want to go to movie theaters. Because that's my day job. Mr. Singer, who was also a producer of the Fox medical drama "House," said "H+" originally had been submitted to his Bad Hat Harry production company as a traditional television series. But its emphasis on technology, he said, and a pivotal event "where all these implants malfunction and create massive, almost apocalyptic death," made it a natural fit for an online format. "By moving backwards and forwards in these smaller webisodes, the audience can piece together the mystery surrounding the event," Mr. Singer said. As opposed to a series where you might get lost, here they're in short, three- to six-minute bursts, so each episode becomes kind of a cliffhanger or a piece in the greater puzzle that takes shape. Mr. Singer said his goal with "H+," directed by Stewart Hendler ("Sorority Row") and with a cast including Alexis Denisof ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Hannah Simone ("New Girl"), was to present an "extremely cinematic" series "that would look and sound like real high-quality television," but was presented online. Not that Mr. Singer is moving away from film or television: He is in postproduction on "Jack the Giant Killer," a fantasy adventure being released next year. And he is directing an NBC pilot for "Mockingbird Lane," which promises an updated take on the 1960s horror-comedy "The Munsters." "It's not a remake of "The Munsters,"" Mr. Singer said of the pilot, which stars Jerry O'Connell as Herman, Portia De Rossi as Lily and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa. It's based on that universe. It's got all the fun that those characters bring to it, and yet a very contemporary feel. None of the campy makeup and all that stuff. "If the series goes forward," he added, "we have access to all the Universal monsters. We've already commissioned scripts so there are other characters being introduced. It has a great potential to be a mixture of "Modern Family" with monsters." While online video naturally competes with the movies and TV shows he creates, Mr. Singer described it as "another option" for presenting material. "If anything, it's cannibalizing less time than a reality show," he said. Still, he expects that Web content will become increasingly dominant, even if Internet-to-brain interfaces will not. "Whether you like it or not, people are going to live more and more on their pads," Mr. Singer said. Eventually your entire content library - literature, movies, television - all of it's going to be sitting there on your phone. If you want a bigger screen you might carry a pad. Otherwise you'll just plug it into something. Thank God people still need a place to take their date and hopefully the movie theaters will still be there. "But just in case," he added, "I want to make sure I've got my bases covered."