Ah, first it was your favorite book exploited when Hollywood producers blew up their depictions of the story and characters and put them on a screen wiping away all your imagination. Now, the desperate TV producers are taking bleh movies and turning them into TV shows.
In Good Company, Monster-in-Law and The Illusionist are the latest bad movies coming to the small screen.
CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to a half-hour hybrid comedy based on Paul Weitz’s 2004 In Good Company. The TV series, which Paul Weitz will co-write with Happy Endings writers Josh Bycel and Jon Fener, will stay close to the movie plot of a middle-aged executive who contends with his far younger new boss who also begins dating his daughter.
The 2005 comedy Monster-in-Law starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda is heading to Fox TV written by Amy B. Harris, developer/EP of The Carrie Diaries and 30 Rock executive producer John Riggi, loosely inspired by the movie. The TV comedy will follow-up the film with a happy couple about to learn the ups and downs of parenthood while managing the challenging relationship of a wife and her husband’s mother.
The CW is developing a period drama with roots in Western Europe, which will be changed as the Vienna setting moves to New York, based on the 2006 movie The Illusionist which starred Ed Norton. The movie, written and directed by Neil Burger, was loosely based on Steven Millhauser’s short story, Eisenheim The Illusionist, and is considered a fictional version of the Mayerling Incident, which involved the murder-suicide of Austria’s Crown Prince and his lover.
Movies Turning into TV Shows
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