Personally I haven’t seen the BBC Miniseries Second Sight, but despite that I have heard a fair bit of buzz around it. Perhaps I should get around to actually watching it. Oh, nevermind. I will just wait for Universal to make it into a movie and then listen to how the miniseries was so much better.
Variety says Universal is homing in on a big screen version of “Second Sight,” a 1999 BBC miniseries that starred Clive Owen as a detective struggling to solve a murder before he goes blind. His character joins forces with a femme detective to try to crack the case.
“Second Sight” aired Stateside on PBS and spawned a sequel, “Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind.”
The deal, which is still being finalized, calls for Angry Films’ Susan Montford and Don Murphy to produce and series creator Paula Milne to executive produce.
The idea of taking a miniseries and converting it into a hollywood film just raises some red flags to me. In a miniseries the creators can do so much more with the characters and the story. Take 4-6 hours of miniseries screen time and squash that down into a 90 minute movie and it is sure to lose some quality.
In reality, if Universal does do this I will find a copy of the original series and watch it first.
