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Fargo - The TV Show

  • 14-01-2014 11:19pm
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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,004 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Saw this over on BBC News:
    The Coen Brothers are turning their Oscar-winning movie Fargo into a TV series, with long-term collaborator Billy Bob Thornton in the lead role.

    The 1996 film starred Frances McDormand as a determined, pregnant police chief on the trail of two bumbling criminals.

    She won an Oscar for the role, while Joel and Ethan Coen took home the best original screenplay award.

    The 10-part TV series, for US channel FX, will involve brand new characters and a new scenario.

    Thornton, 57, will play Lorne Malvo, described as a "a rootless, manipulative man who meets a small town insurance salesman and sets him on a path of destruction."

    The actor previously starred in the Coen Brothers' films The Man Who Wasn't There and Intolerable Cruelty. His other screen credits include Bad Santa and Monster's Ball.

    FX network boss John Landgraf said that, although there was no cross-over with the original, the Fargo TV show would be "remarkably true to the film".

    Joel and Ethan Coen's films include O Brother, Where Art Thou? and True Grit
    Filming will take place in Canada, and the drama is expected to be shown in the US next spring.

    The Coen Brothers are executive producers, marking their first venture into television after a film career that his produced cult classics such as The Big Lebowski and box office hits like No Country For Old Men.

    Could be interesting. FX have a number of good shows and the cable medium is always better for this sort of project. Plus Billy Bob Thornton is a good casting.
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