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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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