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"The Nice Guys" Being Developed As Female-Led Contemporary TV Series for FOX

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OrangeAtlas

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Joel Silver Developing Female-Led ‘Nice Guys’ Series Adaptation at Fox

Joel Silver is adapting his 2016 buddy cop comedy “The Nice Guys” into a female-led drama series at Fox, Variety has learned.

“The Nice Girls” is a described as a one-hour contemporary female take on Silver’s acclaimed feature film, which starred Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling and was co-written and directed by Silver’s frequent collaborator Shane Black. Fox has ordered a script for the project from Silver Pictures Television with a significant penalty attached.

Michael Diliberti will write and executive produce, with Silver and his president of television Rodney Ferrell also executive producing. Ken Kao will also executive produce. Diliberti wrote the comedy film “30 Minutes or Less” for Sony/Columbia which starred Jesse Eisenberg and Danny McBride and is next set to direct his script “Miami, PI” for RatPac and Pulse Films.

The project is a co-production between Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox Television, and Silver Pictures Television. It falls under Silver’s first-look deal at Lionsgate.
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I guess we got a sequel?

Yay?
 
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Geist-

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Fox really going all out with the tv adaptations. At least this time they're trying to shake things up.
 
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Mushroomer25

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So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
 
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Discotheque

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Meh who cares without black or that amazing crowe/gosling duo. What's with fox and making shane black stuff into crappier tv shows btw. Tho I guess that's Joel silver making them moves
 
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sarcastor

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Mushroomer25 said:
So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
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might as well do a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tv show with an albino dwarf and a Filipino mute set in Antarctica and they try to solve a murder mystery in 2045.
 
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Messofanego

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In recent years, broadcast networks have created TV versions of films like “Limitless,” “Frequency,” “Taken,” “Training Day,” “Lethal Weapon,” “Uncle Buck,” “Rush Hour,” and “Minority Report,” to name just a few. Fox also tried to adapt “Behind Enemy Lines” into a series last season, but the project did not end up being ordered to series.​
Huh, I've never heard of these. Must have been garbage.

I mean I'd love a female led cop drama or comedy whatever this ends up being, but I don't have high hopes that they're just banking on the name of a known property. And Shane Black isn't writing so, not high hopes.
 
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PanSexual_Peacock

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This basically sounds nothing like the film so I don't see the purpose in making this an adaptation instead of it just being an original show. FOX basically did the same thing with Lucifer.
 
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Zubz

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Mushroomer25 said:
So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
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Yeah... I'm fine with different leads, but the setting sold me on the movie, & the genreshift means it's an entirely different project. If it was still based on the 70's & was a comedy, I'd absolutely be in. But it's not, so I have no idea what this show could even be?
 
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OrangeAtlas

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Messofanego said:
In recent years, broadcast networks have created TV versions of films like “Limitless,” “Frequency,” “Taken,” “Training Day,” “Lethal Weapon,” “Uncle Buck,” “Rush Hour,” and “Minority Report,” to name just a few. Fox also tried to adapt “Behind Enemy Lines” into a series last season, but the project did not end up being ordered to series.​
Huh, I've never heard of these. Must have been garbage.

I mean I'd love a female led cop drama or comedy whatever this ends up being, but I don't have high hopes that they're just banking on the name of a known property. And Shane Black isn't writing so, not high hopes.
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I think they all got cancelled after their first season (except maybe Lethal Weapon?).

Limitless is damn good TV. Honestly check it out, it's maddeningly energetic and creative.
 
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overcast

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Discotheque said:
Meh who cares without black or that amazing crowe/gosling duo. What's with fox and making shane black stuff into crappier tv shows btw. Tho I guess that's Joel silver making them moves
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Pretty much my exact feelings. Don't need this from Fox and the appeal of the movie was the creative talent as in Black/Crowe/Gosling.

I wanted a sequel damnit.
 
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AuthenticM

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Mushroomer25 said:
So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
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yeah, seriously.
 
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Auron_Kale

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Initially I thought it was going to be set in the same universe as the movie but now that I know it's not... Gonna have to pass on it.

The movie was such a gem, absolutely loved pretty much everything about it.
 
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Messofanego

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Tinfoilhatsron said:
I thought it was going to be a show about 'the nice guy' sexism culture on the internet with women in leading roles.
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Man Seeking Woman had an entire episode (season 2 episode 7) about the nice guy where a Nice Law meant if a guy shows a girl any form of affection they have to be with that guy. It was brutally hilarious.

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Triteon

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Mushroomer25 said:
So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
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By not being a period comedy it doesn't even seem to trying to evoke the film.
 
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OrangeAtlas

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This concept barely even makes it past the title.

I mean, it's called The Nice Guys.
Ignore that thread about "you guys" being gender neutral.
 
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Deleted member 1235

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For some reason I thought this was going to be a lady follow up to 'the other guys'
 
KonradLaw

KonradLaw

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So bassicaly it has nothing to do with Nice Guys movie :D
Oh, well. It could be worse. I mean. I remember when Hollywood was trying to turn Gray Man into action movie. Novel is about male ex-CIA assassin being chased through Europe by hit squads competing for money prize. And they movie version was supposed to star Charlize Theron, who was trying to save multiple children she didn't know she had (how that made any sense if she's a woman, God only knows :D)
 
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TheNatureBoy

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Yeah, I don't get turning it into a series but removing basically everything they made the movie unique. It's not like The Nice Guys even has much name value like something like Lethal Weapon, the movie was critically acclaimed but far from a hit.
 
Neff

Neff

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This movie sat around unmade for some time, originally sans '70s setting, and at one point was being prepped (with Black/Bagarozzi's involvement) to become a TV show, so they probably have a lot of material with the same characters and situation in a drawer somewhere. And this presumably is that.

The film was the best thing Black's been involved with since The Last Boy Scout though, so it'll probably end up falling in its shadow.
 
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master billings

Banned
The whole point of the movie was the dynamic between Crowe and Gosling with Black's dialogue and it being set in the 70s. Without that there's no point in evoking the name.
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
#1. This doesn't sound anything like the movie
#2. Nobody saw the movie so it doesn't even have some huge brand awareness like Taken or Lethal Weapon

I don't get it
 
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aygomyownroad

Member
Mushroomer25 said:
So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
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Yeah this is just a detective series...

I would love another "The Nice Guys" as a film or TV series if it followed the antics of the original 2, even if it was different actors, this seems just awful.
 
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GAMEPROFF

Banned
Mushroomer25 said:
So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
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So many reason to not be excited.
 
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Haloid1177

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nkarafo said:
So its not guys anymore? Are they going to change the title?
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If you read the OP you'd know.

As for this, I mean the concept for Nice Guys wasn't anything new, but it just worked. This has the chance of being another super generic network crime drama. Will give it a shot when it finally airs though.
 
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Temp_User

Member
Mushroomer25 said:
So to be clear -

- It's not set in the 1970s
- Different characters
- No Crowe or Gosling
- Being pitched as a drama, not a comedy
- Shane Black not involved

How is this based on The Nice Guys, exactly? Sounds like a pretty standard procedural that just wants to evoke the same tone as the film, while also using the name.
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Ahh fuckit. I was expecting a female buddy cop/investigator tv show wrapped in 1970's porn shenanigans like a more comedic take on David Simon's the Deuce.
 
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