I’ve only seen CSI a few times (maybe like 12 episodes) but I must admit I always enjoy it when I do. Considering the popularity of the show it’s not totally surprising that the shows creator, Anthony E. Zuiker, is talking about a movie.
When X-Files came out I thought it would start a landslide of CURRENT TV shows jumping to the big screen (we’ve already got our fill of old shows making the jump). But that hasn’t really happened at all. Oh sure, there are whispers of a Simpsons movie… or Alias (which would kick ass), but nothing else really.
The good folks over at CSI Files offer up this little bit of news:
“I hope that comes true because I have some ideas about that,” Zuiker was quoted in the TV supplement of the Australian Sun Herald. “I can’t really verbalize them, but I think there’s a way to make it work.”
Zuiker was only able to wax briefly about his CSI movie dreams, as most of the interview consisted of reporter Scott Ellis grilling him about the rumored displeasure of William Petersen (Gil Grissom) with the show. “Billy is the glue in a nucleus to the whole franchise,” said Zuiker, who apparently seemed uncomfortable even to consider the possibility of Petersen leaving. But when pressed, Zuiker said that “the show will go on, [and] whether we lose actors or not, the concept will move forward.”
Now that throws a wrench in it. Would a CSI movie even go over well if William Petersen isn’t in it?!?! I have severe doubts that it would.
