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Christian Slater As Jekyll & Hyde-ish Superspy??
Merrick here...
NBC is said to bee close to ordering episodes of a new (so far untitled) series starring Christian Slater. The show is from Jason Smilovic (an Executive Producer on KIDNAPPED and BIONIC WOMAN). This project was originally developed as a feature film.
The series...
...is described as "The Bourne Identity" meets "Jekyll & Hyde" and centers on a mild-mannered suburban dad (Slater) who learns that his alter ego is a spy.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Not only is NBC actively drifting away from the notion of traditional television seasons (i.e. they'll be rolling out shows year-round), they're also saying "go" to series without a pilot. The new Slater series looks like it'll exemplify this new policy.
Interesting changes.
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I love 80-90's movie actor has-beens on television!
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of JourneyMan then. Fuckers.
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"Here's to Bill Brasky!!!"
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March 14, 2008, 10:01 a.m. CST
So Slater is the next ex-movie star with his own TV-show?
by DerLanghaarige
Why not. I just wish somebody would give Kurt Russell his own series.
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or is that NSA???? Cause we all know that NSA agents run around with guns....
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The Long Kiss Goodnight. Geena Davis....mmmmmmmmm......52 years old. A fucking Grand-MILF. Could you imagine hitting that back when she was in Tootsie? Yeah, Geena Davis much hotter than Christian Slater.
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Hopefully, the show's good. If so, it will be nice to see Arkansas Dave working on a more regular basis. Much better than shit like Mindhunters. And the Jekyll and Hyde spy angle sounds interesting...
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Christian Slater as Aw-nold? I really don't think so. If the TV studios are turning Schwarzenegger movies into televison series (e.g. Sarah Conner Chronicles), how soon before "The Running Man" and "Total Recall" be turned into weekly series. Damn, I want a reality Running Man series.
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Is AMC the only channel interested in making shows that I don't go into feeling like I've seen them before?
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The ultimate audience-interactive show....The PC Police would have a field-day if anyone but rich white guys were hunted, but who gives a fuck? Now that's a good way to fix the prison crowding problem! And fight sleazy corporate assholes at the same time. Catch people doing fucked-up shit and they go on Running Man!!!! With Ahhnold as the host, of course. "C'mon, do it!!! Do it now!!! What Ahh You Waiting Foah?!?!"
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I think a few of you are maybe missing the point. I don't think the character KNOWS about his alter ego initially. Thus the Jekyll and Hide reference. Kinda like that comic they had for a while called SpyBoy. He was programmed to turn into this spy that his main identity knew nothing about and then something happens that connects the two and suddenly he's aware that there's a whole other life that he's been leading.
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March 14, 2008, 11:56 a.m. CST
Not True Lies - I think he doesn't know his alter ego
by ShiftyEyedDog2
he's not keeping it a secret, it sounds like he's unaware or at least not in control of, this ater ego
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March 14, 2008, 11:57 a.m. CST
Smilovic's Lucky Number Slevin was surprisingly good
by ShiftyEyedDog2
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I would TOTALLY watch that! Just think, of all the westerns, Young Guns would be easiest to turn into a TV show. Bring on Alan Ruck as Shotgun George, and have Emilio, Kiefer, Lou Diamond Phillips etc drop by for cameos!
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or sooner.
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It bears repeating, and the Bionic Woman was in it.
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...was very irritating and over the top. I expected better of Moffat.
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And no Arnold and no Cameron -- so basically TV crap.
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You knew it was coming.
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underrated, i tell ya!
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"Is there a problem with your hearing, Mr. Hyde?"<p>
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Take the money away from this soon-to-be-cancelled tripe and put it towards a new season of a show the critics and those who watched enjoy: JOURNEYMAN
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wtf?
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Talk about theatre of the absurd!
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should be awesome
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...He's a cop... who's also a vampire! He's a detective... who never dies! He's a spy... who's also Christian Slater! Christian Slater...WTF?
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... in strange, unexpected places? Like a bit part as a crewman on the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country or with his kid (little brother, nephew, who knows) being interviewed outside a theatre in a TV promo for Honey I Shrunk the Kids ("That bee flight was awesome!") He could've had a more successful career doing that sh*t than he did acting in features...
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he turned up in Star Trek 6 (and sometimes other odd cameos) because his mom was a casting director. So when she was working on Star Trek he asked her to get him a bit part just to be a part of Trek.
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and then 9/11 happened? I'm sure I read that somewhere once upon a time type thing
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into a series, which this is a variation of..?
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Too much botox and those eyebrows of his make for a strange combination.
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does mr hyde wear a dress? -4 episodes.
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Please demand that the writers be able to wrap this show up at any point in time with a single episode. Please continue to do this with all the bullshit "unfolding mystery" shows you throw at the wall from now on. If you show actual endings to your shows, I might consider watching the beginnings, but I won't watch a show like this unless it gets consistent good word-of-mouth and ratings for at least 2-3 seasons.
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March 14, 2008, 5:18 p.m. CST
Odd topic: Battlestar Galactica S3 dvd available in Canada
by Charlie Murphy
well, at least in Saskatchewan where I live. Superstore had a whole shelf of them and when I went to pay, the kid asked if it had just come out. i replied, "it's not due out until tuesday, actually" and he said "uhhh... did we mess up?" anyway, i bought it and it looks great.
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If ever a show needed resurrecting to become an instant classic - without even needing to see the outstanding pilot - it's that! Fuck, NBC, get with the GLOBAL FREQUENCY!!!
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How can you NOT love KUFFS? Captain Sheridan of B5 as Slater's older brother! The unspeakable hotness of a barely-legal Milla Jovovich as George Kuffs' pregnant girlfriend! Subtitles imaginatively scattered everywhere! The most menacing role Leon Rippy has ever fucking played!!!<P> I'm not being post-modernist ironic. Seriously. I FUCKING LOVED KUFFS!!!
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Like the sound of that. Though maybe they could consider getting the movie right first - as fun as the Arniefest was, the story in the novella is much grittier, more political and more edgy. It would make an awesome movie in the hands of a master satirist like Paul Verhoeven.
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There was a Total Recall series. It was called "Total Recall 2070" and ran for 1 season in 1999. It covered a lot of P. K. Dick themes, so it also felt a lot like Blade Runner as well as Total Recall.
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...but I'm not sure NBC can be trusted with this spy show, Slater or no.<br> <br> Why not just make a series based on Long Kiss Goodnight and put it on HBO or FX? Tons of exploitable possibilities there.
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The man that brought to life the character Happy Harry Hardon in Pump Up The Volume is back!! I've always like Christian Slater. He's always been somebody I really enjoyed watching on screen and that I felt was continually underrated. True Romance is one of my favorite movies and I think shows him at his best. I have a soft spot for his performance in Pump Up The Volume...which was a little movie. He makes interesting facial expressions that make him fun to watch on screen when he's playing characters that are on the edge. Christian shouldn't play sedate, average characters. This could be fun.
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for someone who only did one impression. Imagine if he could do a Walken as good as his Nicholson.<p>I like spy shows. Well, I liked Alias, She-Spies and Chuck. And yeah, that Geena Davis movie was the first thing I thought of too, though I can see the subtle differences.<p>Let's just hope that by "Jekyll and Hyde" they don't wind up meaning "Nutty Professor To The Clumps". I'm still not clear on the high concept - is he like a master of disguice by actually turning into a different person? Because he's still, you know, Christian Slater.
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The Last Temptation of Christian.
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Supergirl? Super sexy!
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Slater should be serving expresso at the nearest Starbucks."I said more Mocha on my frappachino, fucker!"<p>I'll pass. Too formularic, like that movie Doomsday
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That film was fucking awesome. And when you're 18, and feeling disconnected from everything around you - as I was (and all of you, because ALL 18 year olds are self-absorbed narcissistic little shits)- to see a movie that raw and honest about what it's like to be a teenager is revelatory. It's no classic, but it defines a pivotal period in my life like MEAN STREETS does for other people.<P> Yeah, I compared PUMP UP THE VOLUME to MEAN STREETS. Let's face it, to someone like me who DOESN'T worship at the feet of Lord Scorsese, it's just the first movie in the interminablke sequence we know as "The Harvey Keitel Italian-American centology" or however many movies its been.<P> I digress. Slater fucking owned that movie. And Samantha Mathis was the hotness in it. That is all.
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I never quite figured out why I never liked Slater's character in that movie. He seemed like a very selfish guy - getting his mate involved in that Wild Bunch shootout at the end, getting Bama to go get beer for him and his sober father (way to be the enabler!!) then moaning when he couldn't get burgers for breakfast. What a twat.<P> Then I heard Slater on an interview over here in the UK, saying he thought Clarence Worley was basically a selfish prick and he played him as such.<P> Vindicated!!! TRUE ROMANCE was an awesome movie (loved Gary Oldman in it), and Slater is his usual megawatt movie star self in it, but his character in it is an insufferable prick, and should have died at the end - as he did in the original ending.<P> But Slater in HEATHERS.... THERE'S NOBODY COOLER THAN THAT!!!
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I loved Walken in JOE DIRT. And I'm willing to bet that no more than five other talkbackers on here saw that movie... and loved it. As I did.<P> Prove me wrong, fuckers.
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By the way, Troy is pretty great.
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So something a bit off the crack. How about this: you're Ricky Ricardo, Jr. who's a Cuban druglord (there's a photo of Fred and Ethel in your living room. The irony: you killed Fred Mertz because you suspected that he was an informer). Gimme an advance and I'll write the pilot.
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At least that's what the reviews said. I thought it was pretty cool and maybe a come-back for the kid. very good little film.
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Doesn't this sound like a drawn out version of the blonde schizo character from Heroes?
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