True Lies coming to TV?

[Sawyer]

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/09/14/james-cameron-adapting-true-lies-for-tv/

James Cameron adapting 'True Lies' for TV
by Darren Franich

James Cameron directs big movies. Gigantic movies. Movies that take the box office behind the middle school and get it pregnant. But big-screen success doesn’t necessarily mean much in TV land: Cameron’s early-’00s TV show, Dark Angel, puttered around Fox for two seasons without making much of a ratings dent. (Although we can thank Dark Angel for the Cult of Jessica Alba and the less-glitzy-but-more-rakishly-charming Cult of Michael Weatherly.) Apparently, Cameron is ready to try again: EW has confirmed that the director is currently working on adapting his 1994 spy-thriller True Lies into a TV show.

Compared to the epic sci-fi of Terminator and Aliens, the fantastical worlds of The Abyss and Avatar, and the mammoth historical undertaking of Titanic, True Lies is practically a hidden gem. (Yes, only a James Cameron film could feature a nuclear explosion and be considered a “hidden gem.&#8221 But if you think about it, half the shows on TV right now look a little bit like True Lies. Well, some shows look a lot a bit like True Lies, but the whole “suburban everyman lives a secret action-thriller double life” can be found everywhere: comedies like Weeds, artful fare like Breaking Bad, jaunty adventures like the new No Ordinary Family.

What would you like to see out of a True Lies TV show, PopWatchers? Should they try to recast Arnold, or should they just take the show into a completely different direction? There’s a special dustbin reserved for TV Shows Based on Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Total Recall 2070, Conan the Adventure), but none of those TV shows had the director of Piranha 2: The Spawning. —Additional reporting by Lynette Rice

Let's see how this turns out....

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

I heard ABC is going to be doing this series