Bill Paxton Joins Training Day TV Series

The upcoming ‘Training Day’ TV series now looks a little better.

Bill Paxton is set as one of the bad-cop leads in CBS’ drama pilot a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua’s acclaimed 2001 manly movie that starred Denzel Washington as a rogue narcotics detective and Ethan Hawke as his rookie cop partner.

Set 15 years after the film left off, the TV show, written by Will Beall, gives the dynamic of the characters a twist. In it, an idealistic young African-American police officer, Kyle Craig, is appointed to an elite squad of the LAPD where he is partnered with seasoned, morally ambiguous detective Frank Rourke (Paxton).

Good job, Bill.