Add yet another movie to the list of those being developed as TV series. Relatively niche US channel Epix is pushing into territory explored by several other companies and is now working on a small screen version of Get Shorty.
The adaptation will be drawn from both Elmore Leonard's book and the 1996 comedy from Barry Sonnenfeld (scripted by Scott Frank). In the series, the plot will follow Miles Daly, working as an enforcer for a crime ring in Nevada. Worried about his and his daughter's future, he tries to switch to producing movies, putting his ill-gotten gains to work in the shark-infested waters of Hollywood. But instead of escaping the criminal underworld, he discovers that he's accidentally brought it to Los Angeles.
Davey Holmes, whose credits income work on the American version of Shameless and HBO drama In Treatment, wrote the adaptation for the series and will run the show, which is aiming to start shooting later this year for a 2017 air date. Aside from needing to overcome potential apathy about yet another movie-to-TV transition, it'll have big shoes (or hat) to fill, since Leonard's work was most recently and successfully brought to screens with the excellent Justified.