Tom Sizemore is set to Crash onto TV screens.The troubled actor, who spent the past year in prison for violating a methamphetamine conviction, has nabbed a recurring role on Starz's upcoming series Crash, The Hollywood Reporter reports.Sizemore will portray "unorthodox" Detective Adrian Cooper who stirs up trouble during a police-shooting investigation on the show, which is based on the Oscar-winning film.Already cast in the project, which will feature a new set of intersecting characters, are Dennis Hopper, Clare Carey (Jericho), Jocko Sims (CSI), Ross McCall (CSI: NY) D.B. Sweeney (Jericho), Nick Tarabay (The Sopranos) and Michael Fairman.Crash will be the first original series for Starz. — Joyce Eng
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It’s one of the more intriguing ideas for the fall season: turning the Oscar-winning movie Crash into a weekly series, which the pay-cable movie network Starz hopes will put them on the map the way Mad Men did for AMC a year ago. (It’s scheduled to premiere Oct. 17.) But don’t go in expecting a sequel. The characters are all new, although as in the movie, they’ll reflect the racial and class tensions of Los Angeles as their lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes random ways.“I didn’t feel the need to go back to that movie and say, OK, what happens on the next day,” says executive producer Glen Mazzara (The Shield), who was hired to reinvent the movie into a series. “I knew instinctually what that movie felt like. … So it really comes out of the emotion that I felt when I watched that film. It really was just a feel of that film I was going for.”A brief clip reel was all that Starz was able to show critics, but the producers (inc...
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D.B. Sweeney (Jericho, The Cutting Edge), Nick Tarabay (The Sopranos) and Michael Fairman have joined the cast of Crash, the Starz channel's TV adaptation of the Best Picture Oscar winner. Previously, Dennis Hopper was announced to head the ensemble. Sweeney will play Peter Emory, a successful pre-bust real estate developer, Tarabay a police lieutenant having an affair with a fellow officer, and Fairman an overbearing father. — Matt Mitovich
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Dennis Hopper has joined the cast of Crash, the upcoming Starz series based on the Oscar-winning film. Hopper will play Ben, a music producer who's been around the block a few times and is waiting for his Next Big Thing. Hopper joins an ensemble that includes Clare Carey (Jericho), Ross McCall (CSI: NY) and Jocko Sims (CSI).While there are no direct character overlaps with the film, the 13-eppy drama — the first original series for Starz — will explore the same theme of "social tolerance" and examine the notion of the American dream through each character's journey. Will the addition of Dennis make the show an easier ride for you? Or does the small-screen adaptation sound like it'll crash on arrival? — Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to see some of Dennis Hopper's many on-screen moments.
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Despite already having two identities, teen phenom Miley Cyrus has legally changed her name, according to ET. The artists formerly known as Miley Cyrus will now be known as Miley Ray Cyrus (sound familiar?).... NBC's American Gladiators is doing so well that it's already set to expand to 90 minutes for two eps. Now, The Hollywood Reporter says, it will be enjoying a companion spin-off in the form of Gladiators 2000, a mid-'90s series featuring teen contestants that was hosted by none other than a young Ryan Seacrest (albeit pre-hair highlights).... Starz has greenlit a TV adaptation of Crash, which will be the network's first original series. The film's director, Paul Haggis, will be back to cowrite and produce, along with Don Cheadle and Bobby Moresco, among others. Let's just hope it fares better than, say, a certain Irish mob drama. — Anna Dimond
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