The film seduces the TV – HOME

With each TV season in the US comes a flurry of new productions. Open strings and cable have to fill their racks with news that occupy the voids in the series ending or not met expectations and were canceled. Such news always contained a remake of a foreign production-in this season, Gracepoint adapts British Broadchurch – and some version of old classics -in 2015 the new adaptation of The Odd Couple , which already had television version from 1970 and 1975 will be released. But the last foot in Hollywood’s blockbuster movies use to turn them into series.

More than fifteen projects currently on the table of the heads of the chains are adaptations of films. Some of them already have final approval for development. The American channel Syfy premiere on January 16 a series based on Twelve Monkeys , Terry Gilliam’s film in 1995 starred Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt. Meanwhile, MTV has given the green light a few days ago to the first season of another series inspired by the film franchise Scream , which on the big screen has already enjoyed four films and whose version for small Screen arrive in October 2015.

Many more are those that have been announced in recent weeks. Like every year, many of these projects in chains by now not occur to come to work next season, but it happens a few others will end up materializing. One title that has begun to sound hard is the television adaptation of Hitch , who starred in 2005 film Will Smith, who will serve as producer on the version that launched the Fox channel. Another Comedy preparing the same chain is based on The groom’s mother , a film that performed the same year Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda. CBS is working on the adaptation of Rush Hour (1998), while Big , whose 1988 film cast led Tom Hanks, could be one of the new Fox comedy. Versions Minority Report , The Illusionist and School of Rock are also under consideration.

Convert films in television fiction is not something new. Fargo , Hannibal , About a Boy or Bates Motel are just a sampling of the latest additions that has joined the cathodic world from ideas that prevailed prior to the big screen. But the previous success as a film, even though he may seduce chains, is not always reflected in his translation. The remake Bad Teacher , which in the film was Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in front of the cast, was canceled by CBS in May only three chapters after premiere.

In other cases, the project has not even come to fruition. Beverly Hills seemed a safe bet for the 2013-2014 season, with Eddie Murphie himself, the protagonist of three installments between 1984 and 1994 in its cast. However, CBS refused to go ahead with the project after seeing the pilot episode. Fewer still takes the idea of ​​moving A great love . Cameron Crowe, director of the film, react to the news that NBC was considering preparing a series on the film in 1989. One of his tweet which made it clear that fiction did not have his approval made the chain cancels the idea .