For an Oscar-winning film it received its share of flack, yet it won’t prevent Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco, Bob Yari, Don Cheadle, Mark R. Harris and Tom Nunan from retro-fitting the 2004 drama into a 13 episode series. Starz will be airing the series sometime down the road with filming expected this Spring.
To be expected are the stereotype portraits in one-hour segments, foreign languages, race relations in the burbs of Los Angelese and current event issues examined head on, but I’d be totatlly surprised to see Haggis go behind the camera on one of these shoots.
Interesting side note: this is only the second time a Best Picture Oscar®-winner has been turned into a series. In the Heat of the Night was the first.
