Greg Kinnear to star in US version of ABC’s Rake
As Good As It Gets and Little Miss Sunshine actor Greg Kinnear is set to play an Americanised version of Richard Roxburgh’s Cleaver Greene, the criminal defence lawyer in ABC’s Rake.
The show will be a co-production between Essential Media and Entertainment and Sony Pictures with executive producer of House, Paul Attanasio to EP the series.
Attanasio will also supervise the script to be written by Peter Duncan, who co-created the original series with Roxburgh and Charles Waterstreet.
Chris Hilton, CEO of Essential Media and Entertainment told Encore: “The show was pitched around Los Angeles last week with Peter, Ian Collie, Greg and Paul as well as a number of Sony executives. We pitched to eight networks and the interest level is very high.”
I hope they don’t stuff it.
I hope the ‘Mericans don’t sanitise it!
Why can’t the Americans take our version and air it? Why do they need to “localise” everything?
We take all of their stuff as is.
Surely the accent is not that hard to understand?
This series is genius, and the script…GOLDEN.! big fan of Roxburgh, I tried contacting him re: he and the producers re-imaging Paul Newman’s Harper. Roxburgh would be brilliant.?