MEDIA BYTES
Posted: 121617

CBS is planning a TV version of L.A. Confidential, the James Ellroy novel that was adapted into a Oscar winning film by Curtis Hanson…MGM is set to re-launch Orion Pictures…Syfy cancelled Dark Matter after three seasons for financial reasons…FOX is developing a TV series adaptation of the Arnold Schwarzenegger/James Cameron film True Lies…ABC has ordered a pilot for a half-hour single-camera re-imagining of Steven J. Cannell’s The Greatest American Hero. In this version the person who finds the suit will be a Cleveland-born 30-year-old Indian-American woman…FOX is planning a TV version of Shane Black’s The Nice Guys but with female leads. The network is also planning a female led Kung Fu remake from Arrow’s Greg Berlanti…Stephen King says there is talk about doing The Stand as an extended TV series for either Showtime or CBS All Access and a film version of Salem’s Lot…David Cronenberg’s Scanners is being developed into a TV series…New Mutants’ Josh Boone is adapting Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman into a movie…ABC is developing a one-hour contemporary drama based on Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.