CBS may have decided not to proceed with a TV series adaptation of Michael Connelly’s “The Lincoln Lawyer,” but their loss is everybody else’s gain as it looks like it may get a better second life on streaming.
THR reports that numerous other networks and streamers are interested in the high-profile legal drama from producer David E. Kelley, one of which is Amazon which runs the TV series “Bosch” based on Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels. That show is currently in its sixth season with a seventh and final one already planned.
Speaking to the newly launched Bestsellers podcast this week, Connelly says of the project: “The good thing is there appears to be people, networks and so forth that want to just step in and take it”.
Connelly blames the coronavirus crisis for CBS passing, revealing that the production team was two days away from filming before the shoot shut down. Then, a month later, [CBS] decided not to go forward with it as the show was planning to be heavily serialized rather than episodic – a risk they didn’t want to take.
He adds that Amazon has an advantage in that it could share a universe with “Bosch” like in the books: “To me that is a good sales pitch because then you could have these people and the universe. Yeah, you could have people crossing paths and all that kind of stuff. It’d be fun to do.”
The series had cast Logan Marshall-Green in the lead role of Mickey Haller who runs his L.A. law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. In the books Mickey is the half-brother of Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch. Thus is Amazon snags it and Marshall-Green remains onboard, we might one day see him and Titus Welliver’s Bosch teaming up.
Source: THR
