I first heard this at the end of last week when I was perusing Deadline's website....and I have to be honest my first thought about this was a very loud NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! because I am such a massive fan of the Tim Burton film that I really don't see why they have to make this a TV series as I can only imagine that it'll be shit! meaning that I hope that this doesn't go the same way as the new US TV series that's based on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes series, that is a modern twist that stars Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Lui as Sherlock and Watson.
But nevertheless...it is being done along with other tried and tested Disney stories such as Peter Pan and Beauty and The Beast.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will executiive produce this, along with Len Wiseman who will direct this 'put-pilot commitment' adaption of Washington Irving's 'The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow' for the Fox network.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are on board to write the script for this along with Philip Iscove who has created the concept for this new TV series which says the Hollywood Reporter will be:
"...dramatic..."
and this has also been said to be a:
"...a modern day supernatural thriller based on the 1820 short story in which Ichabod Crane partners with the town's local sheriff to bring peace to a beleaguered community..."
Peter Pan is also getting this same treatment according to Deadline Holltwood 20th Century TV and the studio based Imagine TV are developing 'The League Of Pan' which will be a new take on the classic Peter Pan story with the idea for this new drama series being that it will be set in modern times and will take place 10 years after the Lost Boys have left Netherland.
This idea was dreamt up by Brian McCauley Johnson and now 20th Century Fox and Imagine TV are now in the process of finding who has written scripts for shows before to co write this pilot script with Brian McCauley Johnson and then once they've got this person on board, they'll take this out and show it around to the TV networks.
But there are also some other Peter Pan movies going to be coming to light...Gavin O'Connor who directed the fantastic 'Warrior' film is going to be directing for Sony Pictures another Peter Pan film, which has the title of 'Pan', the script for this is going to be written by Billy Ray and Joe Roth (Joe Roth produced 'Alice In Wonderland') a completely different take on Peter Pan...and I mean completely different it's more like a left field look at this story as the idea for this film is that Peter Pan and Captain James Hook are brothers!
The other movie that is set to be about Peter Pan that is also working with the title of 'Pan' is going to be a little indie film that will star Aaron Eckhart as a tormented detective called Hook who is hunting for Peter Pan who has been re imagined into a child kidnapper.
CBS are set to reboot their old Beauty and The Beast series which was set in modern day 80's which starred Linda Hamilton as the Belle character that was a district attorney and Ron Perlman as the Beast. But there will be one thing different about this one says Vulture it will have:
"...a procedural twist..."
Whatever this means there has been no other details for this so we will just have to wait to see what this will be.
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