Cop Land: The Series in development for Starz/ James Mangold Producing
08-03-13 | 04:48 PM
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Cop Land: The Series in development for Starz/ James Mangold Producing
Excerpt from Deadline article from today:
Miramax and Starz have agreed to develop and cofinance a one-hour TV series based on the critically well-received 1997 Miramax film Copland. The pic’s scripter-director James Mangold is executive producing the TV show with Cathy Konrad and Adam Fields. Mangold and Bryan Goluboff (The Basketball Diaries, 2008′s In Treatment) are writing the pilot.
The Miramax-Starz TV project is a takeoff on the feature film’s plot of a suburban New Jersey sheriff who slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption. No one knows mob better than Starz chief Chris Albrecht who put The Sopranos on HBO. Pic starred Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. Though produced when Harvey ran Miramax, I understand Weinstein will have no involvement in the TV show.
Miramax and Starz have agreed to develop and cofinance a one-hour TV series based on the critically well-received 1997 Miramax film Copland. The pic’s scripter-director James Mangold is executive producing the TV show with Cathy Konrad and Adam Fields. Mangold and Bryan Goluboff (The Basketball Diaries, 2008′s In Treatment) are writing the pilot.
The Miramax-Starz TV project is a takeoff on the feature film’s plot of a suburban New Jersey sheriff who slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption. No one knows mob better than Starz chief Chris Albrecht who put The Sopranos on HBO. Pic starred Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. Though produced when Harvey ran Miramax, I understand Weinstein will have no involvement in the TV show.
08-04-13 | 09:06 AM
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Re: Cop Land: The Series in development for Starz/ James Mangold Producing
Interesting development. Watching the movie, it doesn't seem like something that would work well as a show, but when the plot is paired down to the description above, it seems like it could work. Will be curious to see how the casting plays out.
