Clint Eastwood’s IN THE LINE OF FIRE Will Be a TV Series
Yet another movie is being adapted as TV series. NBC is planning to adapt Clint Eastwood’s 1993 presidential assassination thriller In The Line of Fire for the small screen. The upcoming show will be developed at Sony Pictures TV, and they hired CSI scribes Josh Berman and Carol Mendelsohn to write it. According to Deadline, “the network has given the In the Line of Fire TV series a scripted commitment.”
According to the report, the series centers on “a Secret Service agent who, after a fall from grace, gets the chance to redeem himself when a rogue CIA hitman threatens to assassinate the president. The agent and his female partner will investigate cases while engaged simultaneously in a twisted cat-and-mouse with the would-be assassin, who will upend their lives — forcing them to question their loyalties both professional and personal.”
Last week, it was announced NBC was also developing a series based on Liam Neeson’s Taken. These shows also join other film-to-TV adaptations including Minority Report on FOX and Limitless on CBS. It will be interesting to see how this trend of TV shows based on movies goes.
The original In The Line of Fire film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and also starred John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, and John Mahoney. I liked the movie, but I don’t really have any interest in seeing it turned into a TV show.
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