In the Works: ABC Likes Gene Hackman's Conversation
Producer Tony Krantz (
24) and writers Christopher McQuarrie (
The Usual Suspects) and Erik Jendresen (
Band of Brothers) have a pilot commitment to adapt Francis Ford Coppola's
The Conversation, a 1974 thriller starring Gene Hackman, into a weekly series for ABC.... Also per
Variety: David O. Russell (
Three Kings) is teaming with Josh Lieb (
The Simpsons) on an hourlong FX dramedy envisioned as a sort of
Upstairs, Downstairs set in a Los Angeles country club....
John Corbett,
Charlotte Ross,
Ashley Williams and
Diane Ladd will star in
Montana Sky, a Lifetime movie based on the best seller by the amazing
Nora Roberts.
