Film
In 2004 plans were being drawn up for a film version of The Professionals with Lewis Collins approached to play the part of Cowley, but after negotiations broke down the film was abandoned.
In 2011, film company Lionsgate announced they had acquired the rights to the Professionals series and intended to begin shooting a film version of the series in 2011. The series will be set in the present day with the characters of Bodie, Doyle and Cowley played by new actors. The film looks likely to be a prequel to the 1970s series concerning how Bodie and Doyle entered CI5.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)
“All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)