Producers John Wells and Arnold Kopelson are bringing the 1997 feature The Devil’s Advocate to television as a potential series. The legal drama with a supernatural twist, from Warner Bros. TV, has landed at NBC with what I hear is a put pilot commitment. Written by Matt Venne (Bag of Bones, The Exorcism of Molly Harley), the series centers on a public defender who joins a law firm that is run by the Devil himself.
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The movie sucked the show will follow suit..
ReplyDeletethe movie was ok.. just ok....but I look forward to seeing what they'll do with the tv show
ReplyDeleteInteresting, how about getting Mark Pellegrino as Lucifer ? :P
ReplyDeleteThe movie was decent but I love and have always loved the concept for some reason. And Satan and Christian mythology is always something I enjoy in entertainment for some reason lol so if they could build an interesting show mythology and maybe make it a good mix of serialized and procedural like Hannibal, this could be great.
ReplyDeleteUuuh, I liked the movie, but I don't think it can work as a show without the whole concept being dragged out too much. It's an interesting project, at least.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the movie, but I think this will be another The Firm, it will get it's 12/13 episodes and it will be gone, unless it's a miniseries, then it can expand a little on the movie without dragging the concept too much.
ReplyDeleteReally depends on what they do with the concept. They could basically reinvent it and just keep the trappings the same (devil, lawyer caught up with law firm) and do their own story and mythology. If they don't just retread the same story but go for unique ideas it could be something great.
ReplyDeleteThey'd have to change the ending for this to work as a tv series.
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah, and they will mostlikely do that. We all know the "based on" is taken pretty loosely nowadays, lol. I just hope they don't try to turn it into a case-of-the-week, because I don't see that working with the concept at all.
ReplyDeleteA miniseries could work but a series of loosely connected episodes (1 case for 1 episode) could be debatable. It works better for The Good Wife.
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