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 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. |
