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Harry Caul: The Series!! AMC Developing 1970s-Set Drama Based on Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION!!
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AMC has hired writers Christopher McQuarrie ("The Usual Suspects," "The Way of The Gun") and Erik Jendresen ("Band of Brothers," "Otis") to pen a pilot following the adventures of surveillance expert Harry Caul, hero of Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-nominated 1974 drama “The Conversation.”
As in the movie starring Gene Hackman, Caul will both eavesdrop and be eavesdropped upon.
Sony shot a contemporary NBC pilot in 1994 that starred Sandrine Holt ("Rapa Nui"), Molly Orr ("Drake & Josh"), and "Twin Peaks" vet Kyle MacLachlan as Harry Caul. Scripted by Ron Bass ("Gardens of Stone," "Rain Man," "My Best Friend's Wedding"), the pilot never spawned a series.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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isn't this weird? PS Jendresen wrote OTIS!
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I would watch this. Love the film.
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...figured it would never see the light of day, and was ok with that. But with AMC having proven themselves capable of period dramas, it seems like a slam dunk. The Conversation is one of my top 5 movies of all time, I will definitely pay attention to this.
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You know.. every movie John Cazale was in before he died is a classic. I think they were all Best Picture nominated actually. Anyways...this sounds like AMC is cashing in on their period-piece Mad Men fame. Good for 'em.
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Seriously, The Conversation is one of my all time favorite films. Done right, this could be an amazing series with just as much relevance today as when the film premiered. I haven't watched Mad Men, but I just hope that AMC doesn't try to take some sort of action approach over the brilliantly crafted mood of the original.
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Was a sequel to the conversation, will smith starred in it, tony scott directed it, and theres nothing you can do about it.
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They are very different but do work really well together. Mostly due to Hackman being Jesus.
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how about a animated series based on ingmar bergman's The virgin spring
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My favorite film of his is The Seventh Seal. When I saw that movie it was like an epitomy. It encapsulated everything I feel about religion and God at the time I saw it. I could relate to Max von Sydow's Crusader more than any other character in any other film ever. I've got whole blocks of that film memorized. The Criterion DVD is sheer brilliance.
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Normally I'd be mortified, the character's appearance in Enemy of the State was bad, but this could be good as a well-produced tv series. Fingers crossed.
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just kidding. :)
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First of all, I think Harry Caul was only in Enemy of the State so much as Frank Martin was in Collateral.
Second, this is awesome. I love The Conversation, even if it didn't turn out to be the kind of movie I thought it would be. I love Breaking Bad, and I've heard good things about Mad Men, so I think this will probably end up actually being very good. There's no limit to what they can do with this idea, really, especially since it's a period piece and they don't have to deal with the obsolescence of Caul's iconic methods. -
and as well produced as Mad Men, then I am game.
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Now that they've pretty much said fuck it in regards to American Movie Clsasics by editing them down, having comercials, playing the same movie 5 times a day for months on end, and focusing on TV shows now?
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It's even better than Mad Men.
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TV needs more Cranston
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They officially changed it to just AMC a while ago. Which is just as well when the likes of Halloween 5 were constantly being shown under the "Classics" banner.
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What a list of classics...The Godfathers, Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter...to this day I'm amazed to know that he and Meryl Streep were engaged to be married before his untimely death.The key to this series will be the casting of Harry Caul. My dream casting would be James Gandolfini, who I feel is this generations Gene Hackman.
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Really, really, really wonderful program. When The Wire first started, a lot of the directors often watched "The Conversation" beforehand to try and have the show resemble that.
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AMC gets a free pass for Breaking Bad and Mad Men. I'd probably watch the pilot of any new show they could come up with, even if it starred Sarah Jessica Parker or was written by that Ally McBeal guy.
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Mainly because they are not run by a bunch of girls and homosexuals who treat the network like an issue of Cosmo.
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I had no idea who this Jon Hamm guy was prior to Mad Men. Did some bit parts here and there. Talk about a star making role. Nice to see television can still have such an impact on an actor's career. And I've seen Cranston in the occasional dramatic role (Saving Private Ryan, X-Files), but after years of the goofy dad on Malcolm, who could predict Breaking Bad? Nice job AMC.
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Ron Perlman + bikers = potential greatness.
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Downtown San Francisco. I was excited to see Kyle McLachlan, because Twin Peaks rules!
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It's part of their dump-it-and-get-it-out-of-here sale. I couldn't resist, although I've seen the movie about a dozen times.
As far as Bergman goes, I wish that someone, say Criterion, would release Face to Face. But Cries and Whispers is still my favorite. And the Seventh Seal is my favorite. And Scenes from a Marriage is also my favorite. And Saraband, that's my favorite too. And the Virgin Spring, and Through a Glass Darkly, and The Silence, and Winter Light, Hour of the Wolf, and Shame, and, of course, Fanny and Alexander is my favorite. -
I knew I left something off.
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Aug 07, 2008 12:45:59 PM CDT
I'd love to see The Conversation get some attention as well...
by jedirob
It's such a fucking gem and although people dig it, I always feel like it's overlooked for Coppola and Hackman's more famous work. It's such a great movie. With evil Harrison Ford to boot!!!
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But I don't know if I can get juiced for a TV series based on it. Hackman, Casale, and the rest of the cast were so brilliant and the style of movie isn't really done today since it was so understated. I just don't know how you can recreate that.
Granted series based on TV shows have been able to be as good as their original work many times changing the tone. Look at MASH for example. So I guess this could work. -
Enemy of the State isn't so much a sequel as a homage to The Conversation. Hackman's role wasn't really Harry Caul, but obviously it was tribute to the character right down to the see-through overcoat.
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surveillance job and the complications/revelations that arrise..? With maybe the occasional secondary job as a subplot?
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aren't as relevent today as the early '70s, I don't know what is.
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I love seeing old Union Square in the opeining and Alta Plaza Park in the dream sequence in that movie. Will they have the evil gay executive that Harrison Ford played in the movie?
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It has nothing to do with this. And yeah Gen Kill has got nothing on Gossip Girl.
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A show that doesn't even premiere for another month? How precogniscent of you! Yes I know there's a rough pilot to be downoaded here and there. Just pointing out that it's a silly thing to say, even if you've seen the pilot (especially being that Supernatural advocates on here always excuse the first SEASON of the show). Not that HBO gets any love from me after losing Deadwood, THAT was a great show.
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