Will Colm Meany be Detective Hunt in the US version of Life on Mars

lostexpectation

Great! stuff he can definitely play grizzled and grumpy I don't think Ive seen anything he done over the last few years although some of those lowkey films could have been good....? and I guess he 's been doing theatre.

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0816/meaneyc.html

hmm its been done by david e kelly

and talking of gorgeous redheads http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498956/

Earthhorse

That's good casting alright. I can certainly see him in that role. And the Yanks seem to like him too.

qwertplaywert

liked season one of the uk one,the second season was brutal though.....
Colm Meany=Legend.......he'll always be miles of brien to me!

Colm Meany would be great as Gene Hunt, but why bother remaking it?
The yanks did this before with Cracker,and that was awful. I really don't see the need for this, no matter how good the casting is.

Dodge

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I really don't see the need for this

They're not doing it for you. They're doing it for US audiences, who like to hear American accents and have their TV shows set in America. Is it really that hard to understand?

If its good, good. If its bad, so what...

mike65

You just know some dope with buy it here or for channel 5!

Mike.

Dr Bob

Dodge wrote:

...... who like to hear American accents....

...and yet two of the main cast are Irish! (as apparently the guy playing Sam Tyler is as well)

Dodge

Thats why I specifically didn't say American actors Meaney can do an OK american accent

lostexpectation

which channel will it be on? nbc?

Dr Bob

lostexpectation wrote:

which channel will it be on? nbc?

ABC I think
and then the interwebs

lostexpectation

just watching some old ST TNG, isn't chief o'brien the coolest character on the show, the hardest, he's the only one to come up the ranks and for ya to have the feeling the he fought in groundwars while the rest were in their cosy ships.. bit of irish tweeness but he benn there done that...above all

standbyme

Ah jeez, he'll be gas craic, cant wait!
He also played a gritty cop in Con Air with John Cusack, he was hilarious & the scene where something fell of the plane transporting the prisoners & flattened Meaney's car LMAO moment

shane86

Dis-respect my oul one....:D

Meaney Is fyckin gas in any film ive seen him in. Never caught LOM on its UK run though, wish I had, John Simm is a lethal actor from what i saw in The Lakes, Cracker and Human Traffic, deffo one of my top rated UK actors.

His wife is a crackin piece of arse and all, the cnut

standbyme

Yeah its almost finished its run on BBC3 Mon+Tue nights, but RTE has replaced it with Hotel Babylon without any notice on Tues nights, jeezus :rolleyes:

qwertplaywert

Properbly due to the end of season 1, maybe they dont have the rights to season 2 atm