More Old Movies Headed to TV

[silverscreenselect]

Already this season, we've got Minority Report (probably not for very long) and Limitless (probably for a while longer), and a new version of Uncle Buck with Mike Epps will be here at midseason (it failed as a TV series once). Now, Fox has announced a reboot of The A-Team, which was made into a 2010 movie with Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper, while NBC has ordered scripts for a series version of In the Line of Fire. I'm wondering how they're going to come up with a season of scripts for Fire, since they can't be stopping assassination attempts every single week.

In addition, we have NBC doing a prequel series of Taken and working on a series for RED, Fox ordering a pilot for Behind Enemy Lines and CBS ordering a pilot for Training Day. The CW is doing a remake of The Notebook and working on a Friday the 13th series. Fox is also planning an Urban Cowboy series or remake.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that about half of these projects will at least make it to the pilot stage, although how many show up on the air is a different question. Why is it that FX, AMC, TNT and other cable networks have no trouble coming up with original series ideas while the major networks are just recycling old movies with lower budgets, lower end actors, and worse scripts?

[Bob Juch]

The TV series Minority Report pretty much just stole the title. The "universe" for it it totally different. It's got to have a pretty high SFX budget so won't last long if it doesn't have ratings close to the top. The brother of a friend wrote the original script for the movie. I'll bet he doesn't get a cent for the TV series. I'll have to ask.