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Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/cine...by-luc-besson/

No Jason Statham though. No cast announced yet.

12 episodes Executive Produced by Luc Besson. The budget for the show is $48M.

I read awhile back that Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie from Stargate Atlantis and Universe were also hired to work on this show.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

i think i beat ya by 30 seconds
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

We literally posted this at the same time.

BTW, I just checked Mallozzi's blog and they have already started pre-production on the show. There are photos of the sets they are building etc.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

^^ and by posting in this thread you gave it more posts making it the one to post in.


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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

They had better do a hell of a job casting a Statham replacement or find a way to stretch a TV budget to do cinema quality action sequences because those are the only things the movies had going for them.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

Originally Posted by wmansir
They had better do a hell of a job casting a Statham replacement or find a way to stretch a TV budget to do cinema quality action sequences because those are the only things the movies had going for them.
$4M an episode for a cable TV series is a very generous budget. It will be interesting to see who they cast as Martin.

I read of Joseph Mallozzi's blog (one of Transporter's writer/producers) that they have 5 episodes written right now. The production is currently working out of Toronto.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/19/tr...vance-statham/

And we have a lead. Chris Vance (Dexter, Prison Break, Burn Notice) has been cast as Frank Martin.

Not a bad pick IMO.

According to Deadline.com, the female lead will be played by Andrea Osvart

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0652619/
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

I'm definitely interested with Vance in the lad. He was great in Prison Break and Burn Notice. My only question is, why do they have to cast him as Frank Martin? Why not just make it a different guy?

On a related note, I think it's cool that Collateral (an incredible movie) and The Transporter take place in the same universe.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

Great casting choice in Vance Not familiar with the female lead.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

Wow, I screwed up above. Thoelse are all Showtime shows, so the Skinamax comment stands.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

Will enjoy renting these through iTunes or Amazon.
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I think they should have gone the Human Target route of having a different female lead each week.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

With this being on Cinemax, I hope they go all out and make it an R-rated TV series with lots of violence and sex/nudity. Yeah I know the Transporter movies are PG-13, but they have alot more luxury now being on a pay cable channel.
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Re: Cinemax greenlights "Transporter: The Series" Produced by Luc Besson

Are you having to do a lot of martial arts training?
I’m doing a bit. I’m on a fitness program at the moment. It’s more stamina work than anything, because we will be shooting for five months and that’s a long time to sustain all the physical activites that we’ve got on the show. The stunt guys that worked on the movies are coordinating all the stunts and the action sequences and everything for the series. They’re all very experienced. I’ll be working with them and whatever I can do, I’ll do.


Very discouraging. Expect lots of crappy editing and camera work.

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