Not every film spawned from a TV series is a success, but 1993’s The Fugitive was a bona fide hit, leading Tommy Lee Jones to a Supporting Actor Oscar and spawning a Jones-centric sequel in U.S. Marshals. Now Warner Bros. wants to put the idea on the run towards screens again.
The original film, of course, starred Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, who went on the run when he was falsely accused of murdering his wife. In addition to tracking down the real culprit, Kimble had to evade dogged law enforcement (especially Jones’ hard nut Marshal Samuel Gerard) while simultaneously leaving clues to help the authorities in his search for the true killer.
Deadline’s report doesn’t mention whether Ford or Jones will be back, or whether this will continue the story instead of following current trends and rebooting the whole the concept with new actors. Either way, Christina Hodson has been hired to write the script and the original films’ producers Arnold and Anne Kopelson are back to oversee the new development process. Warner Bros. hopes this can be shooting by early next year, assuming it all comes together once the studio has rounded up a cast in a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in the area.