True Lies: CBS Orders Series Based on Action-Comedy Movie – canceled + renewed TV shows

by Regina Avalos, May possibly 14, 2022

Genuine Lies ultimately has a house. The CBS network has ordered the new action series which is centered on the 1994 James Cameron movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Tv set show will star Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga (earlier mentioned), as properly as Erica Hernandez, Omar Miller, Mike O’Gorman, Annabella Didion, and Lucas Jaye.

The logline reads: “Shocked to uncover that her bland and unremarkable computer specialist husband is a competent intercontinental spy, an unfulfilled suburban housewife is propelled into a life of risk and journey when she’s recruited to function along with him to conserve the entire world as they check out to revitalize their passionless marriage.”

The series comes from McG, and it has been in the is effective for six yrs, per Deadline. The pursuing was exposed about the decide up of the project by CBS:

Bringing Accurate Lies to television has been a longtime passion for McG. He started pursuing the notion in 2016, shortly just after he signed an in general offer with 20th Television set, whose sister aspect studio produced the motion picture. The following 12 months, a Television series reboot with Marc Guggenheim as a author sold to Fox with a put pilot motivation. It did not go over and above the script phase but McG continued his attempts. In a 2019 interview, he indicated that a Accurate Lies Tv sequence could even now come about, perhaps at Disney+.

A yr afterwards, McG was tapped as director and executive producer of 20th TV’s sequence reboot of yet another popular film, Turner & Hooch, for Disney+, developed and executive produced by Nix. The two hit it off and partnered on Accurate Lies. Their pitch landed at CBS in drop 2020 and the undertaking was picked up to pilot in early 2021. Then, in what frequently is thought of a demise knell for a pilot, Real Lies was pushed.

A premiere day for the Legitimate Lies reboot will be set later.

What do you assume? Are you thrilled to see Correct Lies on CBS up coming period?