Say Anything TV Spin-Off Planned

“I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.” John Cusack’s Lloyd Dobler was used to heartbreak, even if the end of Cameron Crowe’s 1989 classic rom-com Say Anything... seemed to point to a happy ending. Or perhaps not that happy, as it turns out. According to a new TV series in development, things may not have gone smoothly for Lloyd after all.

Deadline reports that American network NBC has ordered a pilot script for a spin-off single-camera comedy TV series that picks up the story of **Say Anything... **10 years later. Lloyd has long since been dumped by Diane Court, and his life isn’t turning out quite as he hoped. But then the great love of his life unexpectedly returns home, and he’s inspired to win her back.

We’re not entirely convinced that Say Anything... really needed a new chapter, especially not one that will potentially have to fill out several years of small screen story and which will have to find people who can match Cusack and Ione Skye.

Still, it’s early days and writer Justin Adler was one of the main writers on the criminally underseen and underappreciated comedy Better Off Ted, so it could have promise. That is, of course, assuming it survives US telly’s increasingly cutthroat pilot process…

**UPDATE: **Cameron Crowe agreed with the general response to this story, and announced on Twitter that he isn't involved and would be trying to stop it (see below). According to Deadline,he's been successful, with NBC and 20th Century Fox TV shelving the idea following a call from the writer/director expressing his displeasure.