Renaissance. What cult films will become TV series in the near future
The fashion for remakes, reboots and sequels has swept not only the film industry, but also television - and the creators of new series do not hesitate to borrow ideas, plots and characters from colleagues from the big screen.
Let's find out which popular films will receive serial development in the near future.
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1. "Training day"
Drama Antoine Fuqua about one difficult day in the life of two police officers from the drug department - too new and too hardened - at one time ended with a coda that seemed to imply no continuation. Fifteen years later, things are no longer so clear-cut, and The Day is being revived as a series by Hollywood super producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Fuqua himself, who can be understood. With material so rich and spectacular, he never worked again - with all due respect to the muzhik "Strelok" and "Lefty".
2. "To live and die in Los Angeles"
The cult action movie by William Friedkin (on the chips and aesthetics of which "Drive" was largely built) about the hunt of a pair of FBI agents for a daring counterfeiter, alas, will do without William Defoe, who originally played the charming anti-hero. But Friedkin himself is engaged in it - at the turn of the ninth decade, he remains a bold and provocative director (the proof is Killer Joe).
3. "Regions of darkness"
For Bradley Cooper, "Fields of Darkness" a few years ago became the first serious, not a comedy hit, but the producers of a film about a loser who finds miracle pills that expand consciousness, his fees were so impressive that work on the series began almost immediately. This fall, the project finally hits the screens.
4. Devil's Advocate
A courtroom drama elevated to the level of an infernal oedipal opera, The Devil's Advocate on television looks set to become a little less hyped - the apocalypse at the end of each series is not to be arranged - the story of a law firm with the devil at the head. The pilot of the series was ordered by NBC.
5. Shutter Island
DiCaprio's return as a mad marshal is not worth waiting for, but all the other main faces of the five-year-old thriller will be involved in the television version. The screenplay is being written by Boston film noir master Dennis Lehane, while Scorsese is directing a pilot for HBO called Ashcliff.
6. "Omen"
The original "Omen" needs no introduction - few films so deftly reveal the hidden evil in children's eyes. Scheduled for 2016, the series intends to abandon precisely this dignity - the hero of "Damien" will be the already matured Antichrist.
7. "Special opinion"
Launching on Fox this fall, the series takes place 10 years after the events of Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller (which has only gotten better over the years). Moreover, the project promises a gender inversion in comparison with the original - this time the detective, who is too close to the predictor of crimes, will be a woman.
8. "Scream"
Scream, with its satirical, post-modern take on horror, has always had a place on TV—on MTV, the most post-modern of all TV channels on the planet, which has already aired several episodes of its first season. The director of the original, Wes Craven, is listed as one of the producers.
9. Rush Hour
The authors of the series, which, like the original film, will bring together a cop-pedant from Hong Kong and a Los Angeles gouging officer in one police car, you will not envy. It's not an easy task to keep the comedic charm of the original in the absence of its main sources, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. The TV reboot stars Jon Fu and Justin Hires.
10. "Friday the 13th"
Capturing the spirit of the 1980s better than many, even more talented horror films, Friday the 13th seems to get more serious in the TV version, which will be something between a sequel and a full-scale reboot. And, perhaps, even a little swing at Lynch with Shyamalan - the plot of the series ordered by the CW channel will revolve around the investigation of a crime with Jason Voorhees only indirectly connected.
11. "Western World"
HBO's next big premiere — a very loose serial remake of Michael Crichton's cult fantasy horror Western World — 20 years before Jurassic Park, the writer, with the help of out-of-control robot Yul Brynner, was already wreaking havoc in a Wild West amusement park. The star team of Jay Jay Abrams and Jonathan Nolan transfers the same plot to modern TV, and the roles are played by Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and a dozen other Hollywood-level artists.
12. "Uncle Buck"
A serial comedy revival that benefited the late comedian John Candy was objected to by the descendants of both the actor himself and the original director, John Hughes. When this stopped TV producers - who did not hesitate to give the title role to a black, but, most importantly, much less charismatic than Candy, Mike Epps.
13. "Difficult Child"
When "Difficult Child" was just released to the cinema, it was considered a vulgar tracing paper from the movie "Home Alone". Over the past nearly 25 years, however, a couple of generations have grown up for whom Problem Child carries a powerful nostalgic charge - the series created for NBC by The Hangover co-creator Scott Armstrong seems to be addressed to these viewers as much as theirs. children.
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