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Oscar-Winning CRASH Becomes Starz Series!!
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“Crash,” which won the best-picture Oscar two years ago, will become a 13-episode Lionsgate TV series on the Starz pay-cable channel.
From Tuesday’s Daily Variety:
None of the major characters from the movie, including the ones played by Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock, are likely to make it to the series, [Lionsgate exec Kevin] Beggs said.
“We’ll use the style of storytelling from the movie,” he said, “but there’ll be new characters and new stories to get into the subjects of race and class, and the bigotry that’s simmering under the skin of a city like Los Angeles.”
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, who wrote and produced the movie, will produce the series as well.
This is far from the first TV project for Haggis and Moresco. Before Haggis broke into the movie business a few years ago, he wrote for “The Love Boat,” “Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Facts of Life,” and “Who’s The Boss” before creating “Walker: Texas Ranger” and “Due South.”
More recently, Haggis and Moresco co-created the supershitty and short-lived NBC crime drama “The Black Donnellys.”
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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“We’ll use the style of storytelling from the movie,” he said, “but there’ll be new characters and new stories to get into the subjects of race and class, and the bigotry that’s simmering under the skin of a city like Los Angeles.”
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Is this like the Soul Food TV series?
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i disagree with the statement about the black donnelly's. i didnt find it supershitty, far from it.
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It was extra-supershitty. You can read its reviews here: www.aintitcool.com/node/31696
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was utter shit.
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An insult to Irishmen everywhere
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FYI.
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Jan 29, 2008 12:35:30 AM CST
“We’ll use the style of storytelling from the movie,”
by crazyjoedavola
Sweet. So we can look forward to more heavyhanded bullshit.
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I thought they just ran movies from the 80's?
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Crash was the emperor's new clothes for the modern moviegoer. everyone wanted to believe it was something great, when really, it was just the same nonsense as ever before. rich white Scientologists from LA trying to make a movie about racism. jesus fucking christ.Kenneth Turan had it right:"I don't care how much trouble "Crash" had getting financing or getting people on board, the reality of this film, the reason it won the best picture Oscar, is that it is, at its core, a standard Hollywood movie, as manipulative and unrealistic as the day is long. And something more.
For "Crash's" biggest asset is its ability to give people a carload of those standard Hollywood satisfactions but make them think they are seeing something groundbreaking and daring. It is, in some ways, a feel-good film about racism, a film you could see and feel like a better person, a film that could make you believe that you had done your moral duty and examined your soul when in fact you were just getting your buttons pushed and your preconceptions reconfirmed."
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a piece of shit movie becomes a piece of shit show... what's next? a "FUNNY GAMES" reality tv show?!
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Wasn't MASH like the only TV show that was a movie first?
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Funny Games is overrated.
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JM Ballard's book got a whole chapter in Baudrillard's Simulacrum and Simulation
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loved that show. and shiri appleby. she made charlie wilson's war watchable.
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Why not just make turn Cheaters into a series? They can make it a comedy and the guy from Friends who couldn't act can play Joey Greco or something..
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Your the shitty one. This sounds crap. Why bother. Nothing they do will be as good as the film. What is the point of this exercise ? Crash worked well as a film, why would I want to watch a series based in this ?
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I can guess which demo this is going for which means all the stories will probably be about (fill in minority here) suffering at the hands of whitey. Yuck.
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What is some cop going to feel up a female arrestee every week while some rapper provides comic relief? How the hell can this be a series?
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but then it got shitty real quickly. Added to that is the fact Crash sucks donkey balls, looks like a real winner.
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Racisism is wrong. Just ask the Mexican gardener and the black gang members.
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Shoot me in the penis right now. the least deserving best picture win in the history of the academy. If Valley of Elah had just made a little bit more money...
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If you like rubbing shit in your eyes, and then drizzling AIDS-tinged pussy juice over it.
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Jan 29, 2008 10:33:45 AM CST
...You mean the Car Sex Movie?
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Weird.
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Jan 29, 2008 10:34:49 AM CST
Car Crash Sex Movie, I mean.
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
I want emphasize the Crashiness
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...going to reprise her role as an Iranian woman?
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Yeah, no shit sherlock!! that was my point.
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because it was better then all the other films nominated... there was nothing sinister behind it. And Paul Haggis is a Scientologist from London, Ontario, Canada; not LA. Know your Canadians.
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GREAT!
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was just as embarrassing as Shakespeare in Love, if not more so.
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I hear buzz around the new Lifetime series "Lost Weekend" is poor though.
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I remember someone called it "Racism For Dummies". "Brokeback" was robbed.
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OK, not on here, but had to escort out that classic chestnut from Oscar night 2006. ;)
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Haggis is from Canada the way a meteor is from space. it doesn't matter where it comes from, just where it does the most damage...
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The film was manipulative and sappy. That type of storytelling belongs on TV with all the other soap operas.
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Seriously, they're like the Houston Astros of cable. Can anybody name a single show off their network? This team needs a new owner.
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I thought the meteor thing right off the cuff was pretty damn good...
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Pual Haggis is a hack!!! stop creating shows and movies thst he's had his hand in!!!
If he so much as looked at a project-Id never give it a chance, let alone one BASED on a HORRIBLE movie he wrote
I mean, poor guy- he's taking any deal he can get! We know this show will suck (TRAFFIC televisioons series anyone?),
and will be cancellled before all 13 episodes air-then will be sold in BEST BUY and TARGET exclusively-with the title being Pual Haggis's CRASH.
Then, I will vomit, and once again-curse hollywood! -
is a fucking a moron because "The Black Donnelly's" was an awesome show and it was a dumb move by NBC to cancel it.
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