Friedkin Making ‘Live & Die In L.A.’ TV Series

One of the most underrated movies of the 1980s, William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A., is going to get the TV treatment.  The Exorcist director is going to develop the series for Manhattan and Salem broadcaster WGN America.

Friedkin is tipped to direct the pilot and executive produce the series based upon ideas he hatched with Crash co-writer Robert Moresco. Moresco will script the series and also act as an executive producer.

If the first batch of scripts are well received by WGN and producers MGM Television and Tribute Studios, the show could go straight to series. No casting has been announced for the show.

If you haven’t seen the original movie, about a cop on the trail of a criminal manufacturing his own fake money, there is no better time.  Get it ASAP.