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Crash Hits TV
Two years ago, Crash won the Best Picture Oscar in a major upset. Now the film is headed for a small-screen collision.
Paul Haggis, who cowrote and made his directorial debut on the tale of racial tension in Los Angeles, has agreed to executive produce a 13-episode TV series based on Crash to premiere on Starz in August.
Several of the movie's brain trust is on board, including cowriter-coproducer Bobby Moresco, producers Bob Yari, Mark Harris and Tom Nunan and producer-actor Don Cheadle, who may also reprise his role for the tube version.
Lionsgate, which distributed the film, will oversee the series with Starz.
The project will mark the network's first dramatic series. (Starz currently has two comedy series in rotation, Head Case and Hollywood Residential.) Crash will also become just the second Academy Award-winning Best Picture to be spun off on television after In the Heat of the Night, which ran on NBC and CBS from 1988 to 1994.
Crash's TV story will pick up where the original ensemble flick left off. But with the possible exception of Cheadle, none of Crash's original stars is expected back. The film's cast included Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Terence Howard, Ryan Phillippe, Thandie Newton, Ludacris and Matt Dillon, who earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role as a racist cop.
Instead, the show is poised to introduce all new characters and engage in more than race and class issues in the hourlong segments.
"This series will present an opportunity to delve into many subjects, not just race relations in L.A.," said Cheadle. "I don't think you can do 13 episodes on that subject and keep people interested. The challenge will be to craft the series characters in such a way as to get beneath the skin that supposedly differentiates them and create entertaining storylines that show the hurdles and obstacles we all struggle to overcome day to day."
Stephan Shelanski, executive vice president of programming for Starz Entertainment, said the series fit neatly into the network's new strategy to create original content out of high-profile movies.
"Crash introduced a whole range of fascinating characters and engrossing, intertwined stories that are ideally suited for developing into a TV series," he said.
Starz will get U.S. distribution rights on the series as well as the DVD, while Lionsgate will retain international distribution. All profits will be split equally between the two companies.
Haggis said he originally envisioned Crash as a TV series, and he was "thrilled it's coming full circle and can't wait to see how it expands and transforms."
Lionsgate had initially teamed with FX to develop the series, but moved to Starz when FX asked to push back Crash's debut in favor of new seasons of its in-house-produced rookie dramas—The Riches, Dirt and the Glenn Close legal thriller Damages.
Since Lionsgate recently signed an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of America, work on the Crash scripts can proceed without delay.
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