FX Networks is developing a drama based on the 1996 crime thriller Fargo.
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, who won an Academy Award for the film's screenplay, will executive produce the project. Noah Hawley (Bones, The Unusuals) will write the pilot script.
This is the fourth "prime time crime" project that FX has recently put into development. Just last we we reported on an adaptation of The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, which joined The Bridge and Bronx Warrants as possible series for the network.
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Fargo (1996)
A Film by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father, paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts.
The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper and two innocent bystanders in rural Minnesota, drawing local Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) into her first homicide investigation.
At first unaware that the homicides are connected to a Minneapolis kidnapping, Chief Gunderson draws closer to Jerry Lundegaard as his situation further unravels.
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