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TNT has given a series order to Frank Darabont’s period drama pilot L.A. Noir, which has been picked up for six episodes.
Based on the book L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City by John Buntin, the project chronicles the battle between Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker and mobster Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.’s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and ’50s. It’s a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.
Darabont, who wrote and directed the pilot, is executive producing with Michael De Luca and Elliot Webb for in-house TNT Originals. Alissa Phillips of Michael De Luca Prods. co-executive produces. “This series is an intense, exciting drama that takes viewers back to a truly fascinating time in the history of Los Angeles,” said TNT’s head of programming Michael Wright. “Frank Darabont, Michael De Luca and Elliott Webb have delivered an outstanding opening episode that evokes the time and place in stunning detail.”
LA Noir stars Jon Bernthal as Joe Teague, an ex-Marine now working as an LAPD cop in an era rampant with police corruption. Jeffrey DeMunn plays Det. Hal Morrison, who heads up the LAPD’s new mob squad, with Jeremy Strong as Det. Mike Hendry, Morrison’s second in command. Neal McDonough is Capt. William Parker, Teague’s boss who is determined to weed out corruption and bring down Mickey Cohen. And Milo Ventimiglia plays Ned Stax, who fought alongside Teague during World War II but who now works as a lawyer with connections to the mob. The project also co-stars Ron Rifkin plays Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who makes it his mission to clean up corruption in city government; Pihla Viitala as Anya, the head bartender at Bunny’s on Central Avenue, the West Coast center of the African-American jazz scene; and Alexa Davalos as Jasmine, a beautiful woman whose past has come back to haunt her.
The series pickup for L.A. Noir comes more than 10 months after the network greenlighted the pilot as Darabont took a long time to complete the final cut. His approach to his series as auteur-driven projects may explain the shorter-then-usual six-episode order. Before L.A. Noir, Darabont developed, wrote, directed and ran the first season of AMC’s blockbuster zombie drama The Walking Dead, before exiting early into production on Season 2.
The order, which has been expected, falls into TNT’s strategy to expand to year-round original programming. It joins another new series picked up this year, medical drama Monday Mornings, from David E. Kelley and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Sehr gut. Hatte erst vor ein paar Tagen dran gedacht, dass das Projekt wohl gestorben sein muss. Nur 6 Folgen ist allerdings ziemlich ungewöhnlich für eine Serie, die bereits einen Piloten gedreht hat. Ich denke mal, dass liegt weniger am langen Produktionsprozess als an wackligem Vertrauen.
TNT schickt auch direkt die nächste interessante Serie in Entwicklung.
TNT has put in development Frankenstein, a drama series from Lionsgate Television and 1019 Entertainment based on the five Frankenstein novels by Dean Koontz, which have sold more than 20 million copies.
Feature writer James V. Hart (Dracula, Hook) and his son Jake Hart will write the project, a modern-day reworking of the classic Frankenstein mythology. It is set in present-day New Orleans and follows Victor Helios (Frankenstein) and his creation 200 years after they thought they killed each other in a battle in the Arctic. The creature has survived and Victor has used science to keep himself alive — and they’re now in the same city unbeknownst to each other. Victor has engineered a new race of bizarre beings who answer to him, and when the creature learns that Victor is alive, an epic war ensues built on 200 years of pent-up rage, with New Orleans caught in the middle.
James Hart will executive produce alongside Koontz, whose books have sold more that 450 million copies worldwide, and 1019 Entertainment principals Terry Botwick and Ralph Winter. 1019 Entertainment acquired rights to Koontz’s Frankenstein book series in 2010 for what was originally envisioned as a feature franchise series.
Koontz’s Frankenstein actually originated on TV with the 2004 original movie/backdoor pilot Frankenstein on USA based on his concept, which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese, directed by Marcus Nispel and starred Parker Posey, Vincent Perez and Thomas Kretschmann. It didn’t go to series, and a year later, Koontz launched his book series with Prodigal Son.
Habe einen Großteil von Koontz' Büchern gelesen, aber keinen der Frankenstein Romane. Kenn auch den alten Pilotfilm von Nispel nicht. Gibt deshalb einige Koontz-Werke, die ich lieber als Serie sehen würde, aber auch das ist ein weiterer Schritt auf TNTs Weg zu einem "hipperen" Image.
Zusammen mit American Dad! die konstanteste Animationserie am Sonntag! Die Kids sind hier einfach total genial! :lol: :lol:
