'The Nice Guys' Getting Female-Led Adaptation
"The Nice Guys" is coming to television but with one modern tweak.
The critically acclaimed 2016 mystery crime film that starred Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe will be rebooted for TV by FOX with female leads, thus getting a new title "The Nice Girls."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has given a script commitment plus penalty for the project. It will be written by Michael Diliberti who will also serve as executive producer along with Ken Kao and Joel Silver, who also produced the film, and Rodney Ferrell.
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"The Nice Girls" will come from Silver Pictures Television, who also produced the original, as part of their first look deal with Lionsgate TV with 20th Century Fox Television also a collaborator.
Set in 1977, "The Nice Guys" followed private eye Holland March (Gosling) and enforcer Jackson Healy (Crowe) as they work together to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl named Amelia (Margaret Qualley).
Apart from their differences, which prevent them from effectively working together without bickering, the two have to face up to the serious danger they have gotten themselves into as anyone who gets involved with the case ends up dead.
"The Nice Guys" earned positive reviews from critics and earned $57 million domestically May of last year. The neo-noir film was directed by Shane Black and also starred Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Keith David and Kim Basinger.
If "The Nice Girls" gets picked up by FOX, it will be the latest of the ongoing shows that the network has based on movies, the others being "Lethal Weapon" and "The Exorcist."
It is not the only project getting a female twist though. ABC recently put a pilot commitment to a remake of "Great American Hero" by 20th TV where it switched up the protagonist to an Indian-American woman from Cleveland named Meera.
