After nearly a year in gestation, a TV follow-up to the indie Thank You for Smoking will call USA Network home, says Variety. The TV adaptation, which likely will light up under a different title, picks up where the film left off, with spin doctor Nick Naylor (played on film by Aaron Eckhart) using his mad skillz to benefit those more deserving of aid. Who is your pick to fill Aaron Eckhart's shoes on the tube? And will Tom Cruise mess with this version, too?
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Sci Fi Channel is producing Tin Man, a $19 million, six-hour miniseries that revisits The Wizard of Oz as a "relevant, modern and fresh" science-fiction fantasy. Per Variety, the update finds a young woman name DG plunged in a netherworld called the Outer Zone, where she meets up with Tin Man, a cowardly Wolverine-like creature, a sorceress named Azkadellia, and a larger-than-life entity called Mystic Man.... NBC has tapped Rick Cleveland (Six Feet Under) to bring the indie Thank You for Smoking to the small screen, in the form of a single-camera comedy focusing on superstar spin doctor Nick Naylor (played in the film by Aaron Eckhart).
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Sources close to Tom Cruise's bride-to-be tell the New York Post's Page Six that with the Oscar nomination-hunting season now underway, Fox Searchlight Pictures offered to put Katie Holmes' name out there for consideration, for her role in Thank You for Smoking. Holmes' "handlers," however, are said to have "respectfully declined" the offer, perhaps due to the raunchy nature of her sex scene with Aaron Eckhart. You know, her career did have some potential there for a bit.
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