'Homicide' duo join HBO's 'Manhunt'

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'Homicide' duo join HBO's 'Manhunt'
Simon, Fontana to adapt Swanson's book
By DANIEL FRANKEL



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"Homicide" collaborators David Simon and Tom Fontana are looking to reunite for an HBO miniseries about the 12-day search for John Wilkes Booth.
HBO won't comment on the adaptation of James L. Swanson's book "Manhunt," which follows the search for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. The project is in early development, with the pay cabler optioning the tome and Simon and Fontana set to pen the screenplay.

Simon and Fontana would serve as exec producers, along with Lawrence Bender, Kevin Brown and Walden Media.

Story will focus on the perspectives of lesser-known historical figures that were connected to the assassination of Lincoln and the subsequent media frenzy and manhunt.

"Manhunt" would mark the first collaboration since Fontana helped Simon adapt his book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" into an NBC cop drama back in 2003.

Development comes on the heels of another HBO history-based multipart series, "John Adams," which garnered 23 Emmy noms.

[Dr. Hackenbush]

The twelve day manhunt for...:sleepy:















John Wilkes booth?

Sorry. I nodded off there for a second.

[Whip]

I will follow David Simon anywhere.

[JoeE]

Sounds awesome. The more stuff David Simon does for HBO, the better. The mere fact that HBO keeps giving David Simon work is proof that even when they're down, HBO is still by a large margin the best television-producing entity on the planet.

[Fourthman]

Oh, this is great. I kinda hope DFW's death rekindles the Infinite Jest miniseries HBO was thinking about.

[Thudpucker]

They are going to be 2 out of 5 Executive Producers? I'm missing what that means in terms of the show, what would they actually do?

[Vigilance]

They are going to be 2 out of 5 Executive Producers? I'm missing what that means in terms of the show, what would they actually do?

They'll be writing the screenplay it sounds like.

Also, they get to sit in really big, really comfortable chairs.

[Thudpucker]

They'll be writing the screenplay it sounds like.

Also, they get to sit in really big, really comfortable chairs.

Ah, I skimmed right past that. Very cool!

[Blake Sims]

I'm down. Simon has me in his corner.

[Ed Brubaker]

When I met Fontana a few months back he told me about this and what the real story is and it's actually pretty amazing. It's not about Booth or Lincoln. It's about what happened during that manhunt.

[Patton]

Sounds good. I just hope it doesn't take away from the new Simon series.

[(akaRyanHoffman)]

This is good news for everybody!