The FX network seems to be pulling out all the stops for their television series adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen's classic dark comedy Fargo. The series will star Hollywood heavyweight Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Platt, Colin Hanks and Martin Freeman of Hobbit fame. The show, which isn't a remake so much as new plot to the old movie, is scheduled to premiere next month, and if it the new trailer is any indication, should almost live up the Coen Brothers' original masterpiece.
If you think FX comedy hits like Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Wilfred are dark you haven't seen anything yet.
The networks all new series Fargo is set to premiere April 15, and by all accounts it may be even darker the original flick--and a guy goes into a wood chipper on that one.
According to FX official website the new series will be just like the old movie, only completely different in almost every conceivable way:
"An original adaptation of the Academy Award®-winning feature film, Fargo features an all-new "true crime" story and follows a new case and new characters, all entrenched in the trademark humor, murder and "Minnesota nice" that made the film an enduring classic.
"Oscar® winner Billy Bob Thornton stars as "Lorne Malvo," a rootless, manipulative man who meets and forever changes the life of small town insurance salesman "Lester Nygaard," played by BAFTA Award® winner and Emmy®-nominated Martin Freeman.
"Colin Hanks plays Duluth Police Deputy "Gus Grimly," a single dad who must choose between his own personal safety and his duty as a policeman when he comes face-to-face with a killer.
The series lead Martin Freeman, aka the other Bilbo Baggins, seemed to sum the show up to the Guardian a little more succinctly:
"[It's] kind of in the same universe without being literally the same story, with echoes of the film that we know and many people love, me included...It's not just a retelling of the story, because it's ten hours of TV, so it's going to be a wider spectrum."
Let's hope that means that somewhere in the 10 episode arc, they're bringing back that old wood chipper.
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