Monster-in-Law on the small screen
Comedy show will be a Warner Bros Television production.
Fans of the 2005 romantic-comedy, Monster-in-Law, starring singer-turned-actor Jennifer Lopez and veteran actor Jane Fonda, have reasons to rejoice as the movie is about to be adapted into a television series, reported Entertainment Weekly.
The half-hour comedy will be loosely based on the movie of the same name and is being produced by Warner Bros Television, while Amy B Harris and 30 Rock writer, John Riggi will write the screenplay. Even Harris is not a newbie to the industry as she has previously written the screenplay of Carrie Diaries, which was a prequel to the Sex and the City series.
According to deadline.com the show will focus on the friction between a wife and her husband while also showing the convoluted world of a couple as they learn the joys and horrors of parenting.
The series can be considered a continuation of the 2005 film which follows a doting, overly-possessive mother who has been replaced by a new host on her TV talk show. As a result, she re-enters her son’s life just as he decides to get engaged to a free-spirited, multi-talented woman who works as a dog-walker and temp at a doctor’s office.
Immediately seeing the woman as a threat, she puts on a good face in front of her son but immediately starts plotting against her.
The 2005 movie directed by Robert Luketic and written by Anya Kockoff marked Jane Fonda’s return to cinema after 15 years and proved to be a resounding success at the box office raking an estimated $154.7 million.
This is not the first instance of a commercially successful film being turned into a television series. Previous adaptations of films such as LA Confidential, Harry and the Henderson and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off have either not been received very well by the critics or did not gather enough ratings resulting in these television shows being cancelled.
Other movies of the previous decade are also being prepped for a television adaptation with the Topher Grace and Scarlett Johansson romantic-comedy, In Good Company also being adapted into a television series states deadline.com.
Entertainment Weekly further stated that the Edward Norton period drama film, The Illusionist is also being developed into a television series.
The executive producers of the romantic-comedy Chris Bender and JC Spink will once again serve as executive producers of the show reported the Times of India.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2014.