Sundance Documentary ‘Knuckle’ To Become HBO Series
By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2011 4:30 pm EST
HBO acquired the rights to Knuckle at the festival and are now developing it into a new drama series. Irvine Welsh, the writer of the novel Trainspotting, has been hired to write the pilot and Jody Hill, director of Observe & Report and co-creator of Eastbound & Down, will direct. Read more after the break.
Deadline broke the news of the new writer and director. There’s no timetable on when this show might see the light of day, but 2012 or even 2013 is fairly likely. HBO has enough shows returning, and currently in production, to fill at least a year’s worth of Sunday nights. Plus, they’d have to be sold on the pilot before ordering a full series order.
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