Training Day Making Its Way To TV!?!
The 2001 cop thriller Training Day, which starred Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, is making Its Way To TV.
It been said that a pilot script from the Antoine Fuqua directed movie is in the works being developed for CBS.
CelebNMusic247.com has this report:
This is big news for CBS since Fuqua (Southpaw, Olympus Has Fallen and the upcoming London Has Fallen), has signed on as director and executive producer of the television adaptation. Jerry Bruckheimer (Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean) will also serve as an exec producer, along with Johnathan Littman (“CSI” franchise and “The Amazing Race”). Former LAPD detective Will Beall (Gangster Squad, “Castle”) will be another exec producer and write the pilot.
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Training Day featured Washington as a veteran LAPD cop who walks Hawke’s character through his first day as a narcotics officer. Washington earned an Academy Award for his performance. The television series is expected to pick up where the movie left off 15 years ago, Variety reported.
There is a long list of other cop films that are in the works to transition to television. Showtime is reportedly looking to bring crime drama “In the Heat of the Night” back to television. It was originally a 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier and then became a television series in the ’80s that ran for seven seasons. – RollingOut
In additional news:
The Rush Hour franchise, which made nearly $1 trillion, is also set to make a comeback.
The three buddy cop movies featured comedian Chris Tucker and actor-stuntman Jackie Chan as crime-fighting partners. CBS ordered the series, with Justin Hires playing Tucker’s character and Jon Foo playing Chan’s.
It appears that CBS is following the footsteps of the CW by taking established movies and developing them for TV. What is good is that movie going fans are already familiar with the material, but can relive the story, side-stories and back-stories that were not scene in the movie.
The downfall is TV is becoming mundane with series that were movies, limiting the number of original scripts that once filled the small screen back in the 80s. However, we find it to be smart since the major networks are now competing with cable networks like TBS, TNT, AMC, Lifetime, FX, HBO, Starz, Showtime Netflix and more that have great TV for the adults. With series like Power, Unreal, Devious Maids, Orange Is The New Black, Rizzoli and Isles and more – its seems to be the only way of survival for major networks these days.
Thoughts?
