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- 9/26/2016
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
CBS is putting John Leguizamo in the driver’s seat.
The Emmy winner has been tapped to star in Taxi-22, a single-camera comedy pilot based on a popular French Canadian series, our sister site Deadline reports.
As the title suggests, Leguizamo will play a New York City cab driver — and a “politically incorrect” one at that.
If this project sounds familiar to you, it’s because the late James Gandolfini had been trying to develop it for years, originally at HBO. At one time, the Sopranos actor was even loosely attached to star in it.
Taxi-22 will be executive-produced by Dennis Erdman,...
The Emmy winner has been tapped to star in Taxi-22, a single-camera comedy pilot based on a popular French Canadian series, our sister site Deadline reports.
As the title suggests, Leguizamo will play a New York City cab driver — and a “politically incorrect” one at that.
If this project sounds familiar to you, it’s because the late James Gandolfini had been trying to develop it for years, originally at HBO. At one time, the Sopranos actor was even loosely attached to star in it.
Taxi-22 will be executive-produced by Dennis Erdman,...
- 1/23/2015
- TVLine.com
CBS‘ single-camera comedy pilot Taxi-22 is being put on hold because of problems casting the lead. The project, which had been shepherded by the late James Gandolfini, is a one-lead show, with the casting of the central character considered crucial to its success. CBS brass liked the script and gave the pilot the best shot possible by giving it an early pickup in mid-January. (Taxi-22 was actually the first CBS pilot to be greenlighted this season aside from the How I Met Your Mother spinoff). In the end, after a slew of offers, the role couldn’t be cast on time for next fall but CBS plans to keep at it, rolling the pilot to the next development cycle. An adaptation of the hit French Canadian single-camera comedy created by and starring top Canadian comedian Patrick Huard, Taxi-22 is about a misanthropic and politically incorrect NYC cab driver in the vein of Archie Bunker.
- 3/18/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Jack Davenport is set as the lead in ABC‘s drama pilot Sea Of Fire. The Smash alum, who fielded multiple pilot offers, joins recently cast female lead Jennifer Carpenter in the project based on a Dutch format. Young Australian actress Isabelle Cornish (Home & Away) also has been cast in the pilot, which chronicles the fallout from three teenage girls starring in a pornographic film, which tears their families apart and leads to a disappearance, a murder and host of other secrets boiling under the surface in a small town. Davenport stars as easy-going local Sheriff Marty Kesowich. Already deeply concerned over his suicidal and befuddled wife, Marty counts himself lucky to have a seemingly perfect daughter, cheerleader and straight-a student Merel (Cornish). But he’s shocked to learn that Merel is not at all the paragon he imagined. After Merel’s close friend Jane goes missing, Marty fears that his daughter had some involvement,...
- 2/3/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
CBS kicked off its pilot pickup season today with a order to Taxi-22, a single-camera comedy that had been shepherded by the late James Gandolfini. CBS bought the project, with Gandolfini on board to executive produce, in early June, just two weeks before the Emmy-winning actor’s tragic death. Taxi-22, an adaptation of the hit French Canadian single-camera comedy, had been a passion project for Gandolfini, who first developed it at HBO where his Attaboy banner had a deal. The project went through three incarnations at the pay cable network with different writers and Gandolfini loosely attached to play the lead at one point. When the project, about a misanthropic and politically incorrect NYC cab driver in the vein of Archie Bunker, was sold to CBS in June, there was no writer attached, with Gandolfini executive producing alongside Dennis Erdman and Clark Peterson, the original series’ creator/star, top Canadian comedian Patrick Huard,...
- 1/14/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
CBS is moving forward with Taxi-22. The network has ordered to pilot the Tad Quill half-hour, based on the French-Canadian hit by the same name. The single-camera project centers on a misanthropic and politically incorrect NYC cab driver. TV Pilots 2014: The Complete Guide The comedy, from CBS TV Studios, counts Quill (Bent) as its writer and executive producer. Rights holders Francois Flamand and Patrick Huard, as well as Nancy Sanders, Mark Armstrong, Dennis Erdman and Clark Peterson, will join him as executive producers. The late James Gandolfini had been attached as an executive producer via his Attaboy Productions. (The project was previously
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- 1/14/2014
- by Lacey Rose
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What had ETonline readers buzzing this week?
1. James Gandolfini Dies in Italy
Actor James Gandolfini, perhaps best known for his role as Tony Soprano died June 19 in Italy. He was 51.
Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders confirmed that the Golden Globe winner passed away while on holiday in Rome, Italy. Reports suggest that his death came after a possible heart attack.
"Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply," Armstrong and Sanders said in a joint statement. "He and his family were part of our family for many years and we are all grieving."
HBO also released a statement, saying, "We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family. He was special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone no matter their title or position with equal respect. He touched so many of us over the years...
1. James Gandolfini Dies in Italy
Actor James Gandolfini, perhaps best known for his role as Tony Soprano died June 19 in Italy. He was 51.
Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders confirmed that the Golden Globe winner passed away while on holiday in Rome, Italy. Reports suggest that his death came after a possible heart attack.
"Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply," Armstrong and Sanders said in a joint statement. "He and his family were part of our family for many years and we are all grieving."
HBO also released a statement, saying, "We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family. He was special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone no matter their title or position with equal respect. He touched so many of us over the years...
- 6/22/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
How tragic. James, who famously played Tony Soprano on ‘The Sopranos,’ died of a heart attack on June 19 — he was 51 years old.
James Gandolfini, who will always be known as Tony Soprano, is believed to have died from a massive heart attack in Italy on June 19, HollywoodLife.com’s sister site Deadline reports.
James Gandolfini Dead — Tony Soprano Actor Dies In Italy At 51
James, 51, was in Italy to attend the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. He was vacationing with his sister and 13-year-old son when he suffered the heart attack.
They returned to their hotel after sightseeing and eating dinner when James went into the bathroom and didn’t come out, a source tells the New York Post.
James’ sister went in and found him unconscious on the bathroom floor. She called an ambulance, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
“Everyone is in tears,” a source close...
James Gandolfini, who will always be known as Tony Soprano, is believed to have died from a massive heart attack in Italy on June 19, HollywoodLife.com’s sister site Deadline reports.
James Gandolfini Dead — Tony Soprano Actor Dies In Italy At 51
James, 51, was in Italy to attend the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. He was vacationing with his sister and 13-year-old son when he suffered the heart attack.
They returned to their hotel after sightseeing and eating dinner when James went into the bathroom and didn’t come out, a source tells the New York Post.
James’ sister went in and found him unconscious on the bathroom floor. She called an ambulance, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
“Everyone is in tears,” a source close...
- 6/20/2013
- by Christopher Rogers
- HollywoodLife
Heart attack suspected in death of much-loved actor who starred as gangster family head in The Sopranos
• James Gandolfini's life and career - in pictures
The actor James Gandolfini, who played mafia boss Tony Soprano on the hit TV series The Sopranos, has died of a suspected heart attack in Italy. He was 51.
Colleagues and fans expressed shock after news broke late on Wednesday. "It is with immense sorrow that we report our client James Gandolfini passed away today while on holiday in Rome, Italy," said his managers, Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders. "Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply."
Tributes flooded in for an actor who won three Emmys and showed that being fat, bald and playing thugs was no impediment to charisma.
"[James] was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that," David Chase, who created The Sopranos,...
• James Gandolfini's life and career - in pictures
The actor James Gandolfini, who played mafia boss Tony Soprano on the hit TV series The Sopranos, has died of a suspected heart attack in Italy. He was 51.
Colleagues and fans expressed shock after news broke late on Wednesday. "It is with immense sorrow that we report our client James Gandolfini passed away today while on holiday in Rome, Italy," said his managers, Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders. "Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply."
Tributes flooded in for an actor who won three Emmys and showed that being fat, bald and playing thugs was no impediment to charisma.
"[James] was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that," David Chase, who created The Sopranos,...
- 6/20/2013
- by Rory Carroll
- The Guardian - Film News
James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate crime boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant center of one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.
Gandolfini died while vacationing in Rome, the cable channel and Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders said in a joint statement. No cause of death was given.
"He was a genius," said "Sopranos" creator David Chase. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
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Gandolfini died while vacationing in Rome, the cable channel and Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders said in a joint statement. No cause of death was given.
"He was a genius," said "Sopranos" creator David Chase. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
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- 6/20/2013
- by Cineplex.com and contributors
- Cineplex
It's a word kicked around a lot in Hollywood, but those who worked with James Gandolfini, who died Wednesday at age 51, say The Sopranos star truly was an acting genius. "He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time," remembered the show's creator, David Chase. "A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.' There would be silence at the other end of the phone." And like all great artists, Chase acknowledged, "He wasn't easy sometimes. But he was my partner,...
- 6/20/2013
- PEOPLE.com
We’re heartbroken by the news that James, who is known by fans best as Tony Soprano, died on June 19. Browse through our photos and take a look back at James’ legendary career.
James Gandolfini died on June 19 at the age of 51. And while The Sopranos actor was taken from this life way too soon, his career will live on forever.
James Gandolfini Dies — Look Back At ‘The Sopranos’ Actor’s Career
James first came onto the scene when he starred in a Broadway version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Roles in Crimson Tide and Get Shorty, among other films, followed before he was cast as Tony Soprano on The Sopranos in 1999. The iconic HBO series ran through 2007.
James won three Emmy awards for his portrayal of Tony Soprano.
James was set to star and produce a new series for CBS. The network gave a script commitment to Taxi-22, an...
James Gandolfini died on June 19 at the age of 51. And while The Sopranos actor was taken from this life way too soon, his career will live on forever.
James Gandolfini Dies — Look Back At ‘The Sopranos’ Actor’s Career
James first came onto the scene when he starred in a Broadway version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Roles in Crimson Tide and Get Shorty, among other films, followed before he was cast as Tony Soprano on The Sopranos in 1999. The iconic HBO series ran through 2007.
James won three Emmy awards for his portrayal of Tony Soprano.
James was set to star and produce a new series for CBS. The network gave a script commitment to Taxi-22, an...
- 6/20/2013
- by Christopher Rogers
- HollywoodLife
Update 5:47 Pst: James Gandolfini’s managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders released a statement confirming the actor’s death. “It is with immense sorrow that we report our client James Gandolfini passed away today while on holiday in Rome, Italy. Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply. He and his family were part of our...Read more»...
- 6/19/2013
- by Peggy Truong
- Celebuzz.com
Actor James Gandolfini, perhaps best known for his role as Tony Soprano, has died, Et has learned. He was 51.
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Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders confirmed that the Golden Globe winner passed away today, June 19, 2013, while on holiday in Rome, Italy. Reports suggest that his death came after a possible heart attack.
"Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply," Armstrong and Sanders said in a joint statement. "He and his family were part of our family for many years and we are all grieving."
HBO also released a statement, saying, "We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family. He was special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone no matter their title or position with equal respect. He touched so many of us over the years with his humor, his warmth...
Related: Stars We've Lost
Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders confirmed that the Golden Globe winner passed away today, June 19, 2013, while on holiday in Rome, Italy. Reports suggest that his death came after a possible heart attack.
"Our hearts are shattered and we will miss him deeply," Armstrong and Sanders said in a joint statement. "He and his family were part of our family for many years and we are all grieving."
HBO also released a statement, saying, "We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family. He was special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone no matter their title or position with equal respect. He touched so many of us over the years with his humor, his warmth...
- 6/19/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
Breaking… Refresh for latest: Actor James Gandolfini died suddenly after a suspected heart attack while on holiday in Rome to attend the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. He was 51. Gandolfini will be forever known for his portrayal of mob boss Tony Soprano on the seminal HBO series The Sopranos, which eventually won him 3 Emmy Awards and a $1,000,000-an-episode paycheck. Overweight, balding, rough around the edges with a thick New Jersey accent, Gandolfini was the opposite of a marquee leading man, destined to be a character actor. Yet he proved through his masterful acting that he could make Tony Soprano sexy and smart, towering and powerful. Chris Albrecht who greenlighted the crime family saga at HBO in 1999 and approved Gandolfini in the role, just emailed Deadline: “Absolutely stunned. I got the word from Lorraine Bracco and just got off with Brad Grey who had just heard from David Chase. We had all become a family.
- 6/19/2013
- by NIKKI FINKE AND NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
by Lynn Elber, AP
Los Angeles (AP) - James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant core of one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.
Gandolfini died while on holiday in Rome, the cable channel and Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders said in a joint statement. No cause of death was given.
[Related: James Gandolfini Dies of Heart Attack at 51 (Report)]
"He was a genius," said "Sopranos" creator David Chase. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
Gandolfini, who won three Emmy Awards for his role as Tony Soprano, worked steadily in film and on stage after the series ended. He earned a 2009 Tony Award...
Los Angeles (AP) - James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant core of one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.
Gandolfini died while on holiday in Rome, the cable channel and Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders said in a joint statement. No cause of death was given.
[Related: James Gandolfini Dies of Heart Attack at 51 (Report)]
"He was a genius," said "Sopranos" creator David Chase. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
Gandolfini, who won three Emmy Awards for his role as Tony Soprano, worked steadily in film and on stage after the series ended. He earned a 2009 Tony Award...
- 6/19/2013
- by The Associated Press
- Moviefone
Exclusive: In an early buy for this coming development cycle, CBS has given a script commitment to Taxi-22, an adaptation of the hit French Canadian single-camera comedy, with James Gandolfini attached to executive produce through his Attaboy Prods. For the past three years, the project was set at HBO where Attaboy has a deal. It went through three incarnations with different writers and Gandolfini loosely attached to play the lead at one point. Search is now underway for a new writer to write the CBS version, which is being produced by CBS TV Studios. There are no plans for Gandolfini to star in the show, which centers on a NYC cab driver who is politically incorrect in the vein of Archie Bunker. Gandolfini is executive producing with his managers Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong, Dennis Erdman, Clark Peterson, as well as the original series’ creator/star, top Canadian comedian Patrick Huard,...
- 6/6/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
James Gandolfini has lined up his first series at HBO since the end of "The Sopranos."
Gandolfini will star in an adaptation of British drama "Criminal Justice," which HBO has ordered to pilot, Deadline reports. He'll play a defense attorney who trolls for clients in police precincts and appoints himself counsel for a young man (Rizwan Ahmed) accused of murder.
"Criminal Justice" ran for two five-episode seasons in the U.K. and won BAFTA Awards for best drama serial and best writing (by creator Peter Moffat). Each season told a separate story, with different characters, of one person's journey through the justice system. If the HBO version is picked up, the first season will follow the story of the original. Gandolfini would return for subsequent seasons, however.
Richard Price ("The Wire," "NYC 22") and Steven Zaillian ("Moneyball," "Schindler's List") are co-writing the script, and Zaillian will direct the pilot. They'll also be executive producers,...
Gandolfini will star in an adaptation of British drama "Criminal Justice," which HBO has ordered to pilot, Deadline reports. He'll play a defense attorney who trolls for clients in police precincts and appoints himself counsel for a young man (Rizwan Ahmed) accused of murder.
"Criminal Justice" ran for two five-episode seasons in the U.K. and won BAFTA Awards for best drama serial and best writing (by creator Peter Moffat). Each season told a separate story, with different characters, of one person's journey through the justice system. If the HBO version is picked up, the first season will follow the story of the original. Gandolfini would return for subsequent seasons, however.
Richard Price ("The Wire," "NYC 22") and Steven Zaillian ("Moneyball," "Schindler's List") are co-writing the script, and Zaillian will direct the pilot. They'll also be executive producers,...
- 9/19/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
HBO has given the green light to Criminal Justice where James Gandolfini plays an attorney who's desperately looking for clients. Variety reports that the project is based on the BBC series of 2008 by Peter Moffat. The new series will be scripted by Richard Price and Steve Zaillian. Rizwan Ahmed, Bill Camp, Poorna Jagannathan and Peyman Moadi co star with filming taking place in New York. HBO will produce the pilot with BBC Worldwide Productions. Serving as executive producers on Criminal Justice are Mark Armstrong, Nancy Sanders, Jane Tranter, Gandolfini, Zaillian, Price and Moffa.
- 9/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
HBO has given the green light to Criminal Justice where James Gandolfini plays an attorney who's desperately looking for clients. Variety reports that the project is based on the BBC series of 2008 by Peter Moffat. The new series will be scripted by Richard Price and Steve Zaillian. Rizwan Ahmed, Bill Camp, Poorna Jagannathan and Peyman Moadi co star with filming taking place in New York. HBO will produce the pilot with BBC Worldwide Productions. Serving as executive producers on Criminal Justice are Mark Armstrong, Nancy Sanders, Jane Tranter, Gandolfini, Zaillian, Price and Moffa.
- 9/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Exclusive: Hung writer-producer Brett C. Leonard has been tapped to write a new script for Taxi-22, HBO’s adaptation of the hit French Canadian series, which is being produced by James Gandolfini’s Attaboy Prods. Taxi-22, developed as a potential starring vehicle for Gandolfini, centers on a politically incorrect cab driver in NYC struggling to keep his life together. Gandolfini, Leonard, Dennis Erdman, Clark Peterson, Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong are executive producing. Leonard is the third writer assigned with adapting the French Canadian original created by Patrick Huard and Francois Flamand and starring Huard. He succeeds Kenneth Lonergan and Dave Flebotte who wrote previous versions. Writer-playwright Leonard, repped by UTA, serves as producer on HBO’s dark comedy Hung. His play The Long Red Road was recently staged at Chicago’s Owen Theatre with Philip Seymour Hoffman directing. Gandolfini is with CAA.
- 11/22/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
James Gandolfini is developing a new project with HBO, and he'll be involved both behind and possibly in front of the camera.
"The Sopranos" star will executive produce a drama called "Big Dead Place," which has the rather novel setting of the McMurdo Station research outpost in Antarctica, Deadline reports. The show is based on a memoir by Nicholas Johnson about his time spent working for the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Gandolfini is also likely to star in the pilot, which will chronicle how the people stationed at McMurdo deal with being so far removed from the rest of civilization.
"Breaking Bad" writer-producer Peter Gould (who also wrote "Too Big to Fail" for HBO) will pen the pilot and executive produce with Gandolfini. Jimmy Miller ("Bad Teacher," "The Life and Times of Tim"), Nancy Sanders, Mark Armstrong and Brian Swibel will also serve as exec producers.
If "Big Dead Place" goes through,...
"The Sopranos" star will executive produce a drama called "Big Dead Place," which has the rather novel setting of the McMurdo Station research outpost in Antarctica, Deadline reports. The show is based on a memoir by Nicholas Johnson about his time spent working for the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Gandolfini is also likely to star in the pilot, which will chronicle how the people stationed at McMurdo deal with being so far removed from the rest of civilization.
"Breaking Bad" writer-producer Peter Gould (who also wrote "Too Big to Fail" for HBO) will pen the pilot and executive produce with Gandolfini. Jimmy Miller ("Bad Teacher," "The Life and Times of Tim"), Nancy Sanders, Mark Armstrong and Brian Swibel will also serve as exec producers.
If "Big Dead Place" goes through,...
- 9/2/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Sopranos star James Gandolfini has begun work on drama adaptation Big Dead Place for HBO. Gandolfini, who has been looking for a project to get himself back on HBO since he signed a production deal with them in 2006, is expected to star in the drama. Gandolfini is currently exec-producing a Hemingway & Gellhorn biopic for HBO, but it will star Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman rather than himself. Gandolfini will also executive produce Big Dead Place alongside his managers Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong, Mosaic's Jimmy Miller and actor Brian Swibel. Big Dead Place is based on the memoirs of Nicholas Johnson during his work on the Us Antarctic (more)...
- 9/2/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: HBO has teamed with James Gandolfini for Big Dead Place, a drama based on Nicholas Johnson’s memoir about his stint working for the U.S. Antarctic Program. Gandolfini is executive producing the project, which is being developed as a starring vehicle for him. Breaking Bad writer-producer Peter Gould has been tapped to write the series adaptation, a tragicomic eye view of the fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity of the people living and working the last untamed frontier on the planet — the research base at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Gandolfini and Gould are executive producing with Mosaic’s Jimmy Miller, Gandolfini’s managers Nancy Sanders & Mark Armstrong and actor-writer Brian Swibel, with Sam Hansen serving as co-executive producer. HBO, where Gandolfini has had a production deal for his Attaboy banner since 2006, has been looking to find a new series vehicle for Gandolfini, a followup to his iconic role on...
- 9/2/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
HBO Films has optioned the rights to Robert Egan and Kurt Pitzer’s book “Eating With the Enemy” with James Gandolfini attached to star says The Hollywood Reporter.
The former "The Sopranos" actor would play a Hackensack restaurant owner who forged a relationship with the North Korean Mission in Upper Manhattan and went on to play an important role as a liaison in U.S. and North Korean relations.
Gandolfini will also executive produce alongside Mark Armstrong, Nancy Sanders, Jane Rosenthal, Brandon Brito and Megan Lyvers.
The former "The Sopranos" actor would play a Hackensack restaurant owner who forged a relationship with the North Korean Mission in Upper Manhattan and went on to play an important role as a liaison in U.S. and North Korean relations.
Gandolfini will also executive produce alongside Mark Armstrong, Nancy Sanders, Jane Rosenthal, Brandon Brito and Megan Lyvers.
- 3/22/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Oscar-nominated writer Kenneth Lonergan has come on board to pen Taxi-22, HBO's adaptation of the hit French Canadian single-camera comedy executive produced by James Gandolfini and developed as a potential starring vehicle for the Sopranos star through his Attaboy Films production company. Lonergan replaces Dave Flebotte who was originally tapped to write the adaptation. Taxi-22, which centers on a politically incorrect cab driver in New York City struggling to keep his life together, marks the TV debut of Lonergan, a playwright and feature writer-director who earned Oscar nominations for writing his first movie, You Can Count on Me, and co-writing Gangs of New York. Gandolfini and Lonergan are executive producing with Nancy Sanders, Mark Armstrong, Clark Peterson, Dennis Erdman and the creators of the original show Patrick Huard and Francois Flamand. Huard, a top Canadian comedian, also stars on the Canadian series. Erdman and Peterson licensed the format rights...
- 12/15/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
"The Sopranos" star James Gandolfini and HBO may be getting together again -- this time for a comedy series.
Gandolfini and his company, Attaboy Films, are developing an American version of "Taxi 0-22," a French-Canadian series about an opinionated Montreal cab driver. He's also considering starring in the show, which would be set in New York, according to several reports.
Dave Flebotte, a veteran comedy writer who's worked on "Desperate Housewives," "Will & Grace" and "The Bernie Mac Show," is writing a pilot script for HBO. He'll also executive produce with Gandolfini, Dennis Erdman, Nancy Sanders, Mark Armstrong, Clark Peterson and the Canadian show's creators, Patrick Huard (who also stars) and Francois Flamand.
Flebotte, incidentally, also co-wrote the 2002 "Sopranos" episode "Calling All Cars."
If the project goes forward, it would be Gandolfini's first TV role since "The Sopranos" ended in 2007. He's also developing a movie with HBO about Ernest Hemingway.
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Gandolfini and his company, Attaboy Films, are developing an American version of "Taxi 0-22," a French-Canadian series about an opinionated Montreal cab driver. He's also considering starring in the show, which would be set in New York, according to several reports.
Dave Flebotte, a veteran comedy writer who's worked on "Desperate Housewives," "Will & Grace" and "The Bernie Mac Show," is writing a pilot script for HBO. He'll also executive produce with Gandolfini, Dennis Erdman, Nancy Sanders, Mark Armstrong, Clark Peterson and the Canadian show's creators, Patrick Huard (who also stars) and Francois Flamand.
Flebotte, incidentally, also co-wrote the 2002 "Sopranos" episode "Calling All Cars."
If the project goes forward, it would be Gandolfini's first TV role since "The Sopranos" ended in 2007. He's also developing a movie with HBO about Ernest Hemingway.
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- 5/6/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
James Gandolfini is executive producing an adaptation of the French Canadian series "Taxi 22" which is being developed as a potential starring vehicle for the actor who played Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos." Dave Flebotte is writing and the story revolves around a politically incorrect cab driver in New York City. Also executive producing alongside Flebotte and Gandolfini are Nancy Sanders, Mark Armstrong, Dennis Erdman, Clark Peterson, Huard and Francois Flamand. Gandolfini's Attaboy Films is producing since it has a production deal at HBO. Gandolfini's recent work includes "The Taking of Pelham 123," "In the Loop," "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Welcome to the Rileys."...
- 5/6/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Tony Soprano is coming home to HBO. Actor James Gandolfini and his Attaboy production company will develop a French language Canadian single-camera comedy series Taxi-22 with HBO, reports Variety. The project will be scripted by Dave Flebotte. The premise centers on a politically incorrect cab driver (Gandolfini) in New York City trying to keep his life together. According to Variety, Gandolfini is executive producing with Flebotte, Gandolfini.s managers Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong, Dennis Erdman, Clark Peterson and the creators of the original series Patrick Huard and Francois Flamand. Huard, a comedian, also stars on the Canadian series, now in its fourth season. Erdman and Peterson licensed the format rights from Huard and Flamand and brought the...
- 5/6/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
HBO is teaming with James Gandolfini to develop an U.S. version of the hit French Canadian single-camera comedy series Taxi-22 as a potential starring vehicle for the Sopranos star. The project, to be written by comedy veteran Dave Flebotte, (Desperate Housewives) centers on a politically incorrect cab driver in New York City struggling to keep his life together. It is being developed at Gandolfini’s Attaboy Films production company, which has a deal with HBO. Gandolfini is executive producing with Flebotte, Gandolfini’s managers Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong, Dennis Erdman, Clark Peterson and the creators of the original series Patrick Huard [...]...
- 5/6/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING AND NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline Hollywood
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star Marg Helgenberger has joined the cast of the Weitz brothers' Synergy for Universal Pictures. The comedy revolves around the uneasy relationship between a 50-year-old businessman (Dennis Quaid) and his new 26-year-old boss (Topher Grace). The younger boss is having an affair with the older man's daughter (Scarlett Johansson). Helgenberger will play the wife of Dennis Quaid's character and mother to Johansson's character. Selma Blair, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall and David Paymer round out the cast. Shooting starts March 15. Paul Weitz will direct from his own script, with Chris Weitz handling producing chores. Depth of Field's Andrew Miano is executive producing, and Kerry Kohansky is co-producing. At the studio, the project is being shepherded by Ally Brecker-Shearmur and Matt Jackson. Helgenberger is repped by ICM and manager Nancy Sanders. She most recently starred on the big screen opposite Julia Roberts in Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich.
- 2/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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