Exciting times: ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ to get TV reboot

Anonymous Content to produce project alongside Richard Brown.

As the frenzy for television reboots continues, producers have now started eyeing Oscar-winning films. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 2004 hit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the latest to be headed for the small screen.

Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin, who produced the original film, is remaking the romantic drama into a TV series with studio Universal Cable Productions attached. The project is in its early stages and has not yet been taken out.

The film revolved around an estranged couple (played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet) who decided to erase each other from their memories. Written by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind premiered to rave reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Anonymous Content will produce the project alongside producer Richard Brown. This becomes the latest foray into TV for the production and management company behind hits such as True Detective and Mr. Robot. Anonymous Content also has Netflix’s Brit Marling series The OA and Selena Gomez’s 13 Reasons Why.

Reboots continue to remain in high demand as broadcast, cable and streaming outlets look for proven IP in a bid to cut through a cluttered scripted landscape that is quickly approaching 500 original series. The key to the remakes is having the original producers involved in some capacity — which Eternal Sunshine has with Anonymous Content — as more studios look to monetise their existing film libraries.

Already in the works this season are reboots of Dynasty, Magnum P.I., The Lost Boys, Varsity Blues, The Departed, Let the Right One In and L.A. Law, though the latter does not yet have a network attached.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 12^th, 2016.

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