Movies being made into TV series

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Well the Evil Dead with Raimi and Campbell might be worth a watch, but most of these sound like bad, bad ideas.  Rather than make another Terminator series, why not bring back The Sarah Connor show?

1)  Marley & Me
The lucky dog grossed over $200 million at the box office, and now he's heading to NBC as a pilot written by Sex & the City scribe Jenny Bicks.

2) Big
Break out the giant piano: The classic 1988 Tom Hanks comedy about a boy who wakes up a middle-aged man is getting a TV redo, courtesy of Fox. Enlisted producers Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce will shepherd this new version, which will be loosely based on the film. But can anyone match the magic Hanks brought to the role? Hey, how about his son Colin Hanks? He's only a few years older than Tom was when he took the role.

3) Rush Hour
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker played mismatched cops in the megahit film franchise which is now headed for the small screen from Warner Bros. TV and Cougar Town co-creator Bill Lawrence. How about we mix up the genders, Ghostbusters-style, and go with Sandra Oh and Niecy Nash as the cops?

4) Ghost
Oh my love, my darling... yes, Paramount is remaking the weepy 1990 romance starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore into a drama co-written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman.

5) Minority Report
Fox is plotting a TV sequel to Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi hit, where Tom Cruise played a cop who uses psychic "precogs" to stop crimes before they happen. The TV show will follow one of the precogs as he struggles to adjust to normal life after the Precrime unit is disbanded. He's helped along by a female detective who has a new use for his psychic gifts.

6) School of Rock
It's hard to imagine any actor matching the jolt of raw energy Jack Black brought to the role of failed musician-turned-prep school teacher Dewey Finn in the 2003 comedy. But Tony Cavalero's going to try: The Modern Family vet will take over for Black, debuting next year.

7) Friday the 13th
It's about to get very unlucky for a new group of camp counselors at Crystal Lake. Axe murderer Jason Voorhees will be hacking up fresh meat in a new TV series executive produced by Sean S. Cunningham, who directed the original 1980 film. Remember, this is TV's second stab at Friday the 13th: A syndicated version ran from 1987 to 1990.

8 ) Monster-In-Law
Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda squared off in the 2005 big-screen comedy about a young woman who clashes with her fiancé's overbearing mom. Now Warner Bros. is bringing it to TV, with Amy B. Harris (The Carrie Diaries) and John Riggi (30 Rock) producing.

9) Uncle Buck
John Candy played an irresponsible bachelor forced to look after his brother's kids in the 1988 original; now ABC is remaking it as a multi-cam comedy. And yes, CBS already tried an Uncle Buck series in 1990, which only lasted 18 episodes.

10) The Evil Dead
Good news for fans of Sam Raimi's cult horror-comedy trilogy: Raimi himself is developing a new Evil Dead TV series. And even better news: Star Bruce Campbell will reprise his role as demon slayer Ash. It doesn't have a network lined up yet, but once it does? Groovy.

11) Real Genius
This one cuts deep: The 1985 college comedy starring Val Kilmer as a mischievous physics student is a shining beacon of '80s goodness. But NBC is taking it from the classroom to the boardroom, reimagining it as a workplace comedy with a loose-cannon genius taking a sheltered co-worker under his wing.

12) The Omen
Lifetime's remake of the creepy 1976 hit about a demonic child who's the spawn of Satan has one good omen going for it: Former Walking Dead showrunner Glenn Mazzara is at the helm. The TV series is a sequel, actually, with an adult Damien realizing he's the Antichrist.

13) Problem Child
The 1990 family comedy starring John Ritter and one very naughty boy inspired two big-screen sequels and an animated series; now it's inspiring a NBC reboot, a single-camera comedy penned by Old School writer Scot Armstrong.

14) The Girlfriend Experience
    Steven Soderbergh is adapting his 2009 experimental drama about a high-end call girl (Sasha Grey) into an anthology series for Starz. And the King of Rock 'n Roll might be rolling in his grave: Up-and-coming actress Riley Keough — aka the granddaughter of Elvis Presley — has signed on to star in the show.

15) The Illusionist
The CW is working its magic on the 2006 Edward Norton period drama about a Viennese magician, moving the action to turn-of-the-century New York. In this version, a renowned illusionist gets out of prison and discovers his wife is remarried to the crime boss who framed him.

16) The Mortal Instruments
The film version of this bestselling YA book series about witches, angels, and demons (starring Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower) landed with a thud at the box office last year. So production company Constantin Film is bringing the remaining books in the series to TV.

17)  Say Anything...
NBC announced it was making a TV sequel to the beloved 1989 teen romance starring John Cusack as a goofy loner in love with the class brain (Ione Skye). But after Cusack and director Cameron Crowe blasted the project on Twitter, NBC quietly backed out.

18)  Barbarella
Jane Fonda's sexy 1968 sci-fi romp is being revived by Amazon, with plans to produce a pilot penned by Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.

19) The Terminator
He'll be back: Along with a planned big-screen reboot, the 1984 sci-fi classic is coming to TV in a new series written by Zack Stenz and Ashley Miller, who worked on Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

20)  Dangerous Liaisons
The Oscar-winning 1988 film starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich is coming to TV, with original screenwriter Christopher Hampton penning the pilot. The drama series is currently in development with the BBC, and is shopping for a U.S. network.

21)  The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
ABC Family is developing a young-adult version of the 1992 Rebecca De Mornay thriller about a homicidal nanny who terrorizes a suburban family.

22)  12 Monkeys
Syfy is adapting the 1995 Bruce Willis-Brad Pitt time-traveling sci-fi flick into a new scripted series, which launches January 16.

23)  American Psycho
Serial killer Patrick Bateman takes on a deadly protégé in FX's planned sequel to the 2000 Christian Bale film, based on Bret Easton Ellis's bestselling book.

24)  Outbreak
ER producer John Wells is developing an hour-long drama based on the 1995 monkey-virus thriller for NBC. And it's more timely than ever, with Ebola all over the news these days.

25)  Reality Bites
The iconic '90s slacker comedy starring Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke is getting turned into a TV series, courtesy of NBC and Bites director Ben Stiller.

26)  The Exorcist
A fresh take on the classic devil-possession horror film has been shopped around to TV networks, but no deal has been struck yet.

27)  The Wizard of Oz
Brace yourselves, Munchkins: There are at least four Oz TV remakes currently in development, including a CBS medical drama and a post-apocalyptic Syfy miniseries.

[Martok]

Hahaha!  Good one SDR; you had me going there for a second.    Like they would actually recycle that many classic/iconic films into TV series... 

































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[Staggerwing]

I hope that the Terminator series picks up some of the plot threads from the Sarah Connor Chronicles. I'd love to know what T-1000 Catherine Weaver (Shirley Manson) planned for an endgame was since she seemed to have more than just thwarting Skynet on her to-do list.

AFA the rest...  ::)

[Sir Slash]

Somebody redid the Prisoner a couple of years back, maybe AMC. I couldn't wait for it to come out and then was overwhelmingly underwhelmed by it. Sometimes you just can't go back. :'( Here's one that hasn't been done for awhile.... Star Trek.

[Staggerwing]

Here's one that hasn't been done for awhile.... Star Trek.

Supposedly there has been a new series in the works with Michael Dorn at the helm. I'm not sure how far it's gotten though.

[BanzaiCat]

It took me a while but I finally watched all of Star Trek: Enterprise.

That Michael Dorn series is supposedly called "Star Trek: Captain Worf." I think Dorn himself wrote the first script and he was shopping it around. Not sure if there's serious interest in it nor if Dorn is a decent writer in his own right...the only thing I know of is some TV movie he wrote, that came out more than ten years ago, and that he also starred in. Can't find any info on it so it must be fairly forgettable.

[jejo68]

Actually a series based on minority report could be kind of cool. Follow the cops as they try to get back to basic law enforcements now that precrime unit is disbanded.