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‘Finding Forrester’ TV Series Reboot In Works At NBC From Stephen Curry, Tim Story & ‘The Chi’ Duo
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: NBC is developing Finding Forrester, a drama series based on the 2000 Gus Van Sant movie, which starred the late Sean Connery. It hails from The Chi co-executive producers TJ Brady & Rasheed Newson, director Tim Story, NBA star Stephen Curry and his Unanimous Media as well as Sony Pictures Television.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersIn the film, a black teenager (Rob Brown), a gifted writer and basketball player, lands a scholarship to a prestigious private high school and befriends a reclusive Scottish writer (Connery).The TV adaptation, written by Brady and Newson and to be directed by Story, is changing up the mentor character, played in the movie by Connery.
