‘Three Days Of The Condor’ TV Series Will Try To Predict Future World Events
In March it was reported that Skydance Productionswould be makingaThree Days Of The CondorTV series, based on Sydney Pollack’s 1975 film. The original movie starredRobert Redfordas a low-level CIA analyst who must find answers while dodging pursuers after his entire office cohort is murdered while he’s out at lunch. Inour extensive interview with Skydance Productions CEODavid Ellisonand Chief Creative OfficerDana Goldberg, we asked about the small screen adaptation ofThree Days Of The Condor.
Skydance Productions President of Production Dana Goldberg reveals what got them interested in the small screen adaptation:
We started talking about the idea ofCondorin general, and for all of the CIA thriller type movies that have been made, that just that word, you sayCondor, and everybody immediately knows what you’re talking about. You don’t even have to sayThree Days of. When you sayCondorpeople go ‘oh, that was great’. And we just thought it’s a great title and the inherent setup of that movie would be so great for a television show in this day and age, when between technology and the lack of privacy and the international landscape of what goes on, how rich is that gonna be? We hiredJason Smilovic, who is an incredible writer, and he’s worked hand in hand with Marcy Ross, who runs our television division, and has created a script and bible that we think is just incredible.
Smilovic, who wroteLucky Number Slevin, is working withTodd Katzbergon the project. Skydance CEO David Ellison also gave us an idea of the tone of the series:
As Russ Fischer noted in his original article on the project, Pollack’s film “already upped the stakes from the lean original novel by James Grady, and a longer series adaptation could add even more twists and turns, with plenty of room to express new paranoid avenues that have come into play since the film originally hit theaters.”
