Animal Kingdom to become Showtime TV series
Writer/Director David Michod’s 2010 hit Animal Kingdom will be made into a US TV series, Deadline is reporting.
The project, about the inter-play between a criminal family and the police, is in development, but it has not yet been revealed if the production will be set in Australia or the US.
Produced by John Wells Productions (Southland, The West Wing) and Warner Bros TV, Michod and the film’s producer Liz Watts will receive executive producing credits on the show alongside Wells and Andrew Stearn. Jonathan Lisco, creator of K-ville and writer on Southland is so far the only writer announced.
Wells is also the executive producer on Shameless, for Showtime.
John Wells Production also produced Mildred Pierce, which Guy Pearce won a supporting actor Emmy for and is nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award and Golden Globe. Pearce starred in Animal Kingdom as St Nathan Leckie, alongside Jacki Weaver in her oscar-nominated role as matriarch Smurf Cody and Ben Mendelsohn as Pope Cody.
No names have been announced regarding casting for the TV series.
NO.
This film deserves to stand alone. Any other side stories will just turn it into another Underbelly, a huge exaggeration of Australia’s criminal underworld.
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