from deadline Hollywood...
NBC sibling USA has had success with the similarly themed Mr. Robot. Sneakers joins several other broadcast series in development based on movies: The Italian Job at NBC, Enemy Of The State at ABC, S.W.A.T. at CBS, Behind Enemy Lines at Fox, and Lost Boys at the CW.
wait and see which ones come to be
I really like this movie and have always thought it would make a good a series. Hopes it works!
shareIt could use a remake and update, but I don't see it as a series. A major movie would be nice. Would be difficult to recreate this stellar cast.
shareThe cast is crucial, and you're right about the original being stellar. That element won't be duplicated on TV. it will probably resemble TNT's Leverage or CBS's Scorpion - a group of specialists working for different clients each week - an A-Team flavor with a techie vibe.
The chance of it making it to air is probably 50/50 at best. Although the film is loved by many, I imagine it would have next to zero youth appeal, being based on a largely forgotten film released a quarter century ago. Plus so many pilots get shelved when the programming exec who initially greenlit the project moves onto a new job.
I am intrigued.
Watching the movie again after a few years, I of course wished that they had made a sequel back in the day, since I would have liked to see another adventure with these characters.
A TV series after 25 years? It could work, but Sneakers has such a 90's feel, that I think it could have been turned into a series back then. Maybe even with a sci-fi twist, like in the vein of X-files, the gang could uncover some top secret government stuff regarding aliens or something. Sneaking into Area 51 etc. It could have been fun.
I'm sure Dan Aykroyd would have been all over that.
A sequel would have been great to see, but I'd bet that would be a difficult cast to corral a second time.
shareSeems like the aptly-titled Leverage already grabbed most of its ideas.
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