Please hold your “we really should have seen this coming” jokes until the end, because even pre-cogs are tired of hearing it. Still, it’s true that Steven Spielberg has decided that the time is right for a TV series based on 2002’s Minority Report, and is in the process of hiring Godzilla writer Max Borenstein to begin working on a script.
According to The Wrap, the series is still at a very early stage and there are no firm details as to the driving plot yet. But given the film, you have to figure it’ll follow the investigations of the PreCrime police unit that channels psychic predictions through a complicated computer system to track murderers down before they can even commit the crime. In the film, Tom Cruise’s Chief John Anderton ends up on the run when he becomes the focus of such an investigation.
There’s certainly scope for an interesting series that utilises the film’s Philip K. Dick-inspired concept, and is set in a world – psychic investigations aside, perhaps – that increasingly resembles our own, with targeted ads and other digital distractions.
In related telly news, another movie is primed to head to the small screen in a piece of news that flew in under the radar a couple of days ago. Producers John Wells and Arnold Kopelson are cooking up a series based on 1997 Al Pacino/Keanu Reeves satanic legal thriller **The Devil’s Advocate.
Writer Matt Venne has bee hired to work up a pilot for US network NBC that will spin off the film, which saw an idealistic young lawyer (Reeves) and his wife (Charlize Theron) drawn into a dark plot involving the legal eagle’s literally hellish boss (Pacino). Who could possibly play that role on the small screen? Your suggestions please.