Phil Lord and Chris Miller (‘LEGO Movie’) developing “Serial’ TV show based off podcast
Phil Lord and Chris Miller can pretty much do anything, and I’m there. LEGO Movie. 21 Jump Street. That upcoming Han Solo movie. And so even though I don’t really *get* what this Serial adaptation is going to be, I’m down. It’s a documentary following the recording of a new season of Serial? Or something?
The news about this Serial show comes from Deadline, which says it will follow “the making of the podcast as it follows a case.” The case in question won’t be the murder of Hae Min Lee from the first season, but that’s all Deadline knows about that—though it does sound like it will be an actual case of some sort, suggesting that this will be a proper documentary-style Serial show. Lord and Miller are now developing the show with Fox 21 Television Studios, which is also behind The Last Man On Earth.
This comes several months after we reported that a bunch of studios were fighting for the Serial adaptation rights, with HBO and Ryan Murphy the rumored frontrunners at the time. As weird as it would’ve been to see Ryan Murphy get his hands on this, we can’t say Lord and Miller make much more sense—after all, they’ve done pretty much nothing but comedies for a long time. Of course, that means the show will probably get a really good Mail Chimp gag in at some point, so that’ll be fun.