
Danny Boyle’s ‘The Beach’ Being Developed as a TV Drama at Fox – by Allison Willmore
The 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio film “The Beach” may be considered one of the lesser entries in Danny Boyle’s filmography, but does it have the makings of a decent television show?
Fox seems to think so — Deadline is reporting that the network has signed on to develop a TV series based on the movie and the 1996 book written by Alex Garland from which it was adapted (Garland also scripted Boyle’s 2007 sci-fi drama “Sunshine”).
The TV adaptation of “The Beach” is being written by Andrew Miller, who developed, wrote the pilot for and co-ran the CW witch series “The Secret Circle.” According to Deadline, Miller describes the new project as “about a group of young people feeling disconnected and disenchanted from society who try to start over in paradise but discover that while creating the perfect world is hard, protecting it is even harder.”
We’ve been trying to 2 days to think of something to add to this report. Good, bad, snarky, sweet – nothing comes to mind. Which could mean that the project is just innocuous to be a big television success. Or it cold mean – sob – that we’ve lost our touch.
Strangely, our appetites seem fine…