Peter Weir

  • 25 February 2005

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Filmmaker

Paramount Developing 'The Truman Show' For TV Adaptation

By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 April 2014

Jim Carrey Laura Linney Peter Weir

The 1998 classic starring Jim Carrey is getting a TV show of its own

For a film that depicted one man’s journey as he unwittingly became a staple diet of American’s TV-watching public, it’s perhaps fitting that The Truman Show should be adapted for the small screen by Paramount.

Image caption Image: The Truman Show soundtrack

The studio, as Paramount exec Amy Powell told The Wrap, will be looking to use a host of content to make the series happen. Including The Truman Show itself, their owned novels, screenplays and non-fiction that could all contribute to the development of a small screen adaptation.

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Peter Weir Wednesday 8th December 2010 Photocall for 'The Way Back' held at Claridges. London, England

The Way Back Trailer

For anyone in the 1940 being held prisoner in a Siberian gulag they knew their lives might not last much longer, when seven inmates hatch -and successfully carry out - a plan to escape under the cover of a blizzard they do not know what their next move will be. Surrounded by unforgiving terrain and traitorous weather conditions, the group decide their only hope is to walk to safety.

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