“The Conversation” To Be Remade As Series

Paramount Pictures

*Story Updated Friday PM with new details*

Paramount is reportedly developing a TV series remake of Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic and influential 1974 feature “The Conversation” with MRC producing after having optioned the remake rights from the Coppola estate.

DanielRPK (via World of Reel) broke the news and suggested that Aubrey Plaza is in talks to play a gender-swapped version of the lead role whilst “Triple Frontier” and “A Most Violent Year” filmmaker J.C. Chandor will write and direct.

This report has been followed up by Indiewire who confirmed much of it but have made two key corrections.

The first is that no cast is involved at this stage, thus dismissing the Plaza in talks rumor, but they do confirm the lead role will be gender-flipped from the original. The second is that this will not be a limited series as first reported, rather an ongoing one with MRC set to take the project to market.

Gene Hackman starred in the highly influential original which Coppola filmed between the first two “The Godfather” movies. Hackman plays Henry Caul, a surveillance expert in San Francisco haunted by guilt after a past job led to three deaths.

He’s hired to record a couple’s conversation in Union Square and soon becomes increasingly paranoid when the recordings hint at a potential murder plot. John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and Robert Duvall were among the film’s co-stars.

The Palme d’Or-winning and Best Picture-nominated movie, partly inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film “Blowup,” has itself been incredibly influential in the years since with many films copying elements of it.

Chandor most recently directed Sony’s Marvel film “Kraven The Hunter” which is opening in August.

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