Editorial Staff
A series based on the 2001 film “Training Day” has receiveda a put pilot commitment at CBS.
According to Deadline, all of the big networks were keen on the show. The film’s director Antoine Fuqua, writer Will Beall, Warner Bros. TV and studio-based Jerry Bruckheimer Television are producing.
Fuqua, who is executive producing and helming the pilot, came up with the idea and took it to WB-TV and consequently got Jerry Bruckheimer interested.
“Gangster Squad” scribe Will Beall wrote the pilot.
Says Deadline, “I hear that the series, from WBTV, Fuqua Films and Jerry Bruckheimer TV, would focus on the relationship between the two cops. It would be taking place 15 years after the movie, set in the LAPD of 2015. I also hear that the premise may get a twist, with the rookie cop being black and the corrupt older cop being white.”
The original film earnt both Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington Oscar nominations, and a win for Washington.
