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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 5, 2021 19:11:11 GMT
You heard it here first (or in the Books thread) from that loudmouth on MAR........... whoo-hooo............. Mattsby - stephen - Viced We hear that the latest HBO project from The Wire’s EP David Simon and producer George Pelecanos is finally coming together with the premium network recently quietly greenlighting the project and casting already underway. The duo are working on a limited series based on the Random House book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption by investigative journalist Justin Fenton.
Simon and Pelecanos are writing and executive producing We Own the City.
deadline.com/2021/03/we-own-the-city-hbo-david-simon-george-pelecanos-1234707819/ |
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 5, 2021 20:14:30 GMT
I think I just jizzed.
Pelacanos and Simon are masters in the crime fiction arena. The fact that Pelecanos has barely had any of his novels adapted into films is one of life's great mysteries to me. I think he handles literary noir almost as well as James Ellroy.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 19, 2021 20:12:43 GMT
Kind of torn here.......I feel invested in this project since I brought up when it was a merely book .......yet on the other hand while I do like Jon Bernthal and he'll be great in this.........MAR had a thread once on Jon Berthal which was ridiculous hyperbole - look it up if you doubt me! Behave yourselves MAR ............geesh.......... 
Jon Bernthal, Josh Charles and Jamie Hector have been tapped as the leads of HBO’s We Own This City limited series, from The Wire’s EP David Simon and producer George Pelecanos. Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) is set to direct and executive produce the series, based on Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption. Production is set to begin in July.
The six-hour limited series chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work. deadline.com/2021/05/jon-bernthal-josh-charles-jamie-hector-we-own-this-city-hbo-limited-series-the-wire-david-simon-george-pelecanos-1234760330/ |
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Post by Viced on Mar 17, 2022 18:43:08 GMT
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Post by stephen on Mar 17, 2022 19:13:34 GMT
Fuck yes. Also, I had no idea Wunmi was in this. She deserves everything.
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Post by stephen on Mar 17, 2022 19:15:05 GMT
Also, Jesus Christ, is that Landsman as the commish?!?!
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Bad news dawg...you don't mind if I have some of your 300 dollar a glass shit there would ya?
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Post by sirchuck23 on Mar 17, 2022 19:23:51 GMT
David Simon to Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
"Yeah, I ain't no tie and tux wearing muthafucka like the others. Just a writer, I s'pose...but I want my Emmys." * Takes a swig of Crown and Coke
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Post by ibbi on Mar 17, 2022 19:51:10 GMT
I have a hard time believing this will be as fucking pulsating as it looks. I predict more sailing under the raider for Simon and co.
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