Making a TV pilot is undoubtedly frustrating. Maybe that’s why it seems much easier to adapt other works for TV. Why start from scratch when you can adapt another property, with all of the heavy lifting done already and a fan base already built in?

That seems to be the million dollar question these days as TV executives keep reaching into their respective studios' vaults, using beloved movies as source material for the moving pictures on the small screen in your living room. Movie to TV adaptations have been around forever, but lately announcements for new movie-inspired pilots pop up Hollywood trade publications as reguarly as announcements for the lastest crop of superhero films.

Many of these cinema-inspired shows are already on the air, but we’ve compiled a list of all the other movies bound for TV that are in development, to put a microscope on TV’s latest trend...

These are shows currently in development.  have already aired, thus we've removed them from the list. We'll continue to update the list with new information as it becomes available.Westworld, Frequency, Shooter, Uncle Buck, Limitless, 12 Monkeys, Damien, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Minority Report, Shadowhunters, Rush Hour, School of Rock, Van Helsing and A Series of Unfortunate Events



What We Do in the Shadows

FX’s What We Do in the Shadows TV show is coming soon!

The series adapts Taika Waititi’s 2014 vampire comedy, What We Do in the Shadows, which edified people about things such as the fact that vampires don’t just drink virgin blood because it sounds cool. As Jemaine Clement’s Vladislav explained, they think of it as someone enjoying a sandwich, knowing no one had f**ked it. Indeed, the series – focusing on a different band of bloodsuckers – will delve deep into occult knowledge like why werewolves can’t stop cursing.

Waititi (who went on to do Marvel's mirthfully impactful Thor: Ragnarok,) returns to direct a script written by Jemaine Clement, who was the star/co-director/co-writer of the original film. Both are onboard as executive producers.



Watchmen

With The Leftovers having wrapped its final season to wild critical acclaim, Damon Lindelof is sticking around HBO to develop a Watchmen TV series. Yes, you read that right. Watchmen is finally getting the prestige cable drama that fans have wanted for as long as prestige cable drama has been a thing.

Nicole Kassell is directing the pilot and executive producing alongside Lindelof, Tom Spezialy, Stephen Williams (who will also direct), and Joseph Iberti.



Treadstone

Jason Bourne may be done at the cinema for now but some of the American super soldier's buddies (and enemies) are coming to television.

USA Network gave a straight-to-series order to Treadstone, a Jason Bourne spinoff covering Operation Treadstone, the fictional (or so we think and hope) CIA black ops program that turned Jason Bourne into an amnesiac killing machine.

Heroes creator Tim Kring will serve as showrunner and writer on Treadstone, which showcases the formation of the franchise's CIA black ops program, following the exploits of its sleeper agents, activated for stealthy missions around the world. Production is set to begin in 2019.



A League of Their Own

The Rockford Peaches could be making a comeback. According to an exclusive from THR, Amazon is reportedly looking to adapt the baseball classic A League of Their Owninto a modern-day story. The streamer is stepping up to the plate by drafting Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) to co-write and executive produce the project.

The half-hour comedy is currently in development with a writers’ room working on scripts. If Amazon greenlights the series, Jacobson, who co-created and stars in Broad City, will not have an onscreen role according to the report. Here's the official synopsis:

"A League of Their Own is a half-hour comedy infusing the warmth, humor and DNA of the classic film, while taking a contemporary spin on the stories of the women surrounding the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The show will begin with the formation of the league in 1943 and follows the Rockford Peaches, season to season as they struggle to keep the team alive through close games, injuries, late night bar crawls, sexual awakenings, not crying and road trips across a rapidly changing United States. The series dives deeper into the issues facing the country while following a ragtag team of women figuring themselves out while fighting to realize their dreams of playing professional baseball."



The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys TV series has been ruminating at The CW since 2016. Now the network has confirmed that it has officially ordered a pilot of the reboot of the popular '80s vampire film. Not too shabby for a group of long undead vampires. Rob Thomas, who created Veronica Mars and iZombie, was originally set to be the showrunner, writer and executive producer through his Spondoolie Productions, along with Danielle Stokdyk, Dan Etheridge, Mike Karz and Bill Bindley. Thomas remains on the project as an executive producer but he also has a busy dance card with the Veronica Mars revival set to debut this year on Hulu. There's no word if he will remain on as showrunner. The pilot script will be penned by Heather Mitchell (Scandal).



The Sandlot

An unnamed streaming service has ordered two seasons of a TV reboot for The Sandlot, starring the original cast. The source of this news is pretty rock solid considering that it comes directly from original Sandlot writer-director, David Mickey Evans. Evans added that The Sandlot TV reboot will reunite all the original members of the cast. The series will take place in 1984 when all members of the original Sandlot crew are 33 years old and have children of their own. The Sandlot superfans among you will have to figure out what that means canonically for Small's broadcasting career and Benny's MLB career. The Sandlot TV reboot is a separate project from the film remake underway at Fox.



Lean On Me

The CW is adapting a TV version of the 1989 Morgan Freeman film Lean On Me. From writer Wendy Calhoun (Station 19), LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment, John Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius’ Get Lifted, and Warner Bros. TV, the series will center on a young black teacher, Amarie Baldwin, who lands the head principal job at a troubled Akron, Ohio public high school. The series is still early in the development phase.



The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector is about to be collected by NBC. The Peacock Network has purchased a script for a serial television adaptation of the Jeffery Deaver crime novel-turned 1999 movie, which starred Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. NBC has committed to bringing the murky murder mystery of The Bone Collector to television with a premium script – adapting Deaver’s original 1997 novel of the same name – by the duo of VJ Boyd (S.W.A.T., The Player, Justified) and Mark Bianculli (Doomsday, The Jury, The Good Neighbor). The series – a production of Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television in association with Keshet Studios – will see the scribes joined by executive producers in Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott, and Rachel Kaplan. No director has been named as of yet.



Chucky

We'd previously heard rumblings of a Chucky TV show, but now it's official! A Chucky TV show is in the works at Syfy, despite the fact that a film reboot is on the way soon. According to The Wrap, the network has landed the rights to develop a TV show based on the horror film franchise about the doll possessed by the soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray .

“I’ve long wanted to bring Chucky to television and Syfy is the perfect network for us,” said Don Mancini, who has written all seven films in the Chucky franchise so far, as well as directed three of them. He is on board to write and executive produce the TV adaptation. Syfy's TV series will be named Chucky. David Kirschner, who has produced all of the film in the franchise, will also act as an executive producer alongside Mancini.



Nightbreed

There has always been tremendous potential in the Nightbreed world (there was a cool comic book continuation of the film's story in the '90s), and the prospect of finally revisiting it is an appealing one.

Clive Barker and Josh Stolberg are now developing a Nightbreed TV series for Syfy. It sounds like this is a reboot that will start from scratch (to be fair, by the time this makes it to screens, the movie will be 30 years past). If they follow the path of the movie and "Cabal" it's easy to see how that story alone could be stretched out over the course of a season, and then we can get future adventures with the monsters of Midian. “The team at Morgan Creek is very excited to partner with Clive Barker, Syfy and Universal Cable Productions on Nightbreed for a unique, trenchant and no-holds-barred exploration of race relations in today’s society," said David Robinson, President of Morgan Creek Entertainment Group. "As a sophisticated twist on the classic graphic novel form, Nightbreed pits ‘Humans’ against persecuted monsters, using metaphor and parable to take on bias and prejudice with real-world consequences.”


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