‘TJ Hooker’ Coming to the Big Screen

Here’s hoping this will revive Adrian Zmed’s career.  Something’s got to. ‘TJ Hooker’ is getting the feature film, remake treatment with David Foster, Ryan Heppe, and the original series’ creator Rick Husky producing. No director or actors have been set, yet, but Chuck Russell (‘Eraser’ and ‘The Scorpion King’) is in talks.

The new film, said to be an action comedy, would center on Hooker’s relationship with his father.  The people behind this would be nuts not to, at least, consider William Shatner in the role of the father.

For those of you unfamiliar with the original series, it was a weekly drama about a veteran detective who goes back to patrol sergeant after his partner is murdered.  He was typically partnered with younger cadets who still had a thing or two to learn about the streets.  The series ran from 1982 through 1985 on ABC and ran for two more seasons on CBS.

“The series was the poster child for cop TV shows in the 1980s with great stunts, so we think there’s a fun movie to be made from it,” Heppe said.

Source: Variety