Romantic Tearjerker GHOST Heading to the Small Screen?
Get out your pottery wheels... and your tissues. Paramount is currently developing a TV pilot based on the 1990 romantic tearjerker GHOST according to Entertainment.time.com.
Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman has been hired by the studio to pen the pilot along with Jeff Pinkner. Paramount, which launched a new TV division this past summer plans to spin poplular film classics into small screen successes, as well as develop new projects.
The romantic fantasy film starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn, and Whoopi Goldberg and was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker. The story followed Sam Wheat (Swayze), a murdered man who, after becoming a ghost, teams up with a psychic (Goldberg) in an effort to avenge his death and resolve matters with his fiance.
The film was an outstanding commercial success, grossing over $505 million at the box office on a budget of $21 million, and was the highest-grossing film of 1990. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Score and Best Film Editing. It won the awards for Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay. Swayze and Moore both received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances, while Goldberg won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Saturn Awards in addition to the Oscar.
A musical version of Ghost ran on Broadway in spring of 2012.
