Oh, Those Tangled Hollywood Deals

Lee Goldberg makes a good observation in an item posted on his blog this morning, related to a potential big-screen remake of the old Tony Curtis/Roger Moore TV series, The Persuaders! In a Variety article from early last week, revealing that David Dorfman has been hired to write the film, there was no mention of either Ben Stiller or British comic Steve Coogan being involved with the project, as had been previously reported.

“If Stiller, in particular, was still attached, you’d think they would have trumpeted that,” Goldberg remarks. “So I’m assuming he’s gone, which makes the reasoning behind mounting this TV revival a real head-scratcher.”