American Character
During 2007, a television pilot for an American version of Life on Mars was filmed by 20th Century Fox Television's, David E. Kelley. Actor Colm Meaney was cast as Hunt, the precinct Captain of a Los Angeles Police Department squad. Meaney had not seen the British series but bought the DVD sets at an airport after filming had been completed. The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike delayed the start of the series until 2008. By then, the ABC network wanted the pilot to be reshot without Kelley's involvement. Meaney was not hired to play Hunt again; instead, Harvey Keitel assumed the role. The setting of the series was moved to New York, and Hunt was changed to a police lieutenant, the typical rank of a NYPD detective squad's commander.
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