Sep
22
Manhunt
HBO is developing Manhunt, a miniseries from David Simon and Tom Fontana about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the frantic 12-day hunt for his killer, John Wilkes Booth.
The project reunites the network with the creative forces behind two of its former critical hit series—Simon created The Wire and Fontana created Oz—as well as the two writers themselves. Simon and Fontana have not collaborated since Fontana turned Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets into the cop drama Homicide for NBC.
I’d heard that this project was somewhere on the horizon for Simon, but had no idea that the creator of Oz was involved as well. The series is going to be based on the book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, and has all the components to be a pretty good mini-series. Shame the book only seems to be available in hardback over here, on Amazon at least.
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