NBC is looking to get into the cyber conspiracy game.
The network has handed out a script order for a reboot of 1992 computer hacker movie Sneakers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The feature film, a comedic caper, starred Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley as college students who hack into computer networks using university equipment in a bid to redistribute conservative funds to liberal causes. The movie explores their diverging paths and ultimate reunion as one goes the organized crime route while the other works with law enforcement.
Lawrence Lasker, Walter Parkes and Phil Alden Robinson penned the feature script. Parkes and his wife and producing partner Laurie MacDonald will executive produce the NBC reboot with Tom Szentgyorgyi (The Mentalist, NYPD Blue) set to pen the script.
The drama hails from Universal Television, where Parkes + MacDonald are under an overall deal. Universal Television's film counterpart Universal Pictures produced the movie, which co-starred Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier and David Strathairn. Sneakers was produced on a budget of $35 million and grossed $105.2 million worldwide.
The network has handed out a script order for a reboot of 1992 computer hacker movie Sneakers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The feature film, a comedic caper, starred Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley as college students who hack into computer networks using university equipment in a bid to redistribute conservative funds to liberal causes. The movie explores their diverging paths and ultimate reunion as one goes the organized crime route while the other works with law enforcement.
Lawrence Lasker, Walter Parkes and Phil Alden Robinson penned the feature script. Parkes and his wife and producing partner Laurie MacDonald will executive produce the NBC reboot with Tom Szentgyorgyi (The Mentalist, NYPD Blue) set to pen the script.
The drama hails from Universal Television, where Parkes + MacDonald are under an overall deal. Universal Television's film counterpart Universal Pictures produced the movie, which co-starred Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier and David Strathairn. Sneakers was produced on a budget of $35 million and grossed $105.2 million worldwide.
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NBC has put in development Sneakers, a hacker drama based on the 1992 movie starring Robert Redford, from former The Mentalist executive producer Tom Szentgyorgyi, husband/wife producing duo Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald, and Universal TV. Szentgyorgyi, who is under an overall deal at Uni TV, will pen the series adaptation. Parkes and McDonald, who also will executive produce, were approached by the studio to come on board because of their connection to the movie, which Parkes co-wrote.
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