![]() ![]() Keep up to date with all the latest movie news, click here to subscribe to Empire and have the latest issue delivered to your door every month. Given the recognisable name, we figure this one will hit screens, but don't go expecting much in the way of Lawrence or Will Smith, besides potential ratings-grabbing cameos. ![]() Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, no stranger to TV despite his usual movie stomping ground, is backing the show, which comes from writers Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier, who have been working on the network's The Blacklist. Yet while they have very different lifestyles and approaches to work, can they click as an effective unit. There, she's partnered with cop Nancy McKenna, a working mother who eyes Syd's much more free life with some envy. US TV network NBC has ordered the initial episode of the show, which sees the former DEA Agent (and sister to Martin Lawrence's Marcus) moving from Miami to Los Angeles to work for the LAPD. (You can see the duo in character on the set below.)Īlba and Union executive produce alongside Sonnier Margolis, Bruckheimer, Belgrad, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Jeff Gaspin and Jeff Morrone.The latest movie instalment of the Bad Boys franchise, currently titled Bad Boys For Life, might be struggling to wrest itself from the tangled traffic of development, but it appears that the TV spin-off, to focus on Gabrielle Union's Bad Boys II character Syd Burnett, has now reached pilot stage across the pond. These two have totally different lifestyles and approaches, but they both are at the top of their fields in this action-packed, character-driven procedural. She’s partnered with Nancy McKenna (Alba), a working mom who can’t help but look at Syd’s freedom with some grass-is-greener envy. ![]() In L.A.’s Finest, written by Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier and directed by Anton Cropper, the free-spirited former DEA agent Burnett has a fresh start in her new job as an LAPD detective. The NBC pilot, from Bad Boys movies’ producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Doug Belgrad, Primary Wave Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV, has been garnering solid early buzz. L.A.’s Finest is joining another drama pilot revolving around female cops with a very similar title, ABC’s The Finest, about five African American sisters who are all officers in the NYPD. Officially, the pilot had been called Untitled Gabrielle Union project, which also became awkward after Alba was cast as the co-lead opposite Union. That name didn’t stick, and NBC already has a drama series called Good Girls, which would have made the juxtaposition awkward. Jessica Alba has joined the spin-off pilot of the popular '90s action movies starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Likely for that reason, the spinoff had been unofficially referred to Bad Girls. The Bad Boys series pilot now has two very bada girls in the lead. The TV show represents a female take on the Bad Boys movies - which focused on two partnered Miami Police detectives, played by Martin Lawrence and Will Smith - with two female LAPD detective partners, played by Union and Alba, at the center. Like often is the case with offshoots from popular franchises that don’t feature the lead characters, the TV series could not carry the Bad Boys moniker. The project follows the Special Agent Syd Burnett character played by Union in 2003’s Bad Boys II movie as she moves to Los Angeles and joins the LAPD. ![]()
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