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The Warriors TV Show (Russo Bros.)

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The Russo Brothers Adapting Cult Classic Gang Film ‘The Warriors’ For TV With Paramount And Hulu

EXCLUSIVE: Joe and Anthony Russo are taking a breather from the Marvel world to adapt cult-classic film The Warriors as a one-hour drama with Paramount TV and Hulu. The brothers will reimagine Walter Hill’s iconic 1979 film, itself an adaptation of Sol Yurick’s classic novel. Their take will honor the original film while adding its own unique brand of grit, pulp, sex and violence. The Russo brothers will team with writer Frank Baldwin on the series. The Russo brothers will direct the pilot, although no word yet as to any directing commitment beyond that.

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The film was set in 1979, at a time when parts of New York still resembled war-torn Mogadishu, torn apart by rivalry between deadly gangs. A charismatic leader summons these street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is shot and killed during the rally, one of the gangs, the Warriors, is falsely blamed for his death and its member must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down to kill them. Hill’s film remains a classic of its genre. Who, for example, can forget the psychotic character’s Luther call for the Warriors to “Come out to play”? The cast included Michael Beck and James Remar.


The Russos are the cinematic equivalent of King Midas right now, having crushed the past two installments of Captain America — The Winter Soldier and the even more acclaimed Civil War. The duo also are attached to direct Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War Parts I and II, and have a number of other high-profile projects in the pipeline as producers including Space Runners at Fox 2000, 17 Bridges at STX and a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair at MGM with Michael B. Jordan attached to star.
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Read about this earlier.
Don't know if it will work without the 70's setting and don't know how they could do the 70's setting justice on a TV budget.

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Their take will honor the original film while adding its own unique brand of grit, pulp, sex and violence.
'grit, pulp, sex and violence' these sound like novel additions to the original, which is known to be a restrained romantic romp about good people being polite to each other in very clean places.

i realize i'm nitpicking a dumb blurb here and that the Russo Bros probably have a much better idea of what the source material is about than the idiot who wrote this, but it's just hard to not be cynical about shit like this in general

with that said, expanding on the movie to show a more panoramic view of the world it takes places in is not the worst idea either
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We already got the best Warriors remake we could hope for in The Purge Anarchy, anyways.

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Doubt it'll be set in the same time period. Wish it was, though.

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