![]() ![]() ![]() If I had to venture a guess as to how Holmes and his colleagues pitched the adaptation, it probably went something like this: "It's Breaking Bad meets Fargo." You won't find Blue Sky in any of the first six episodes of Get Shorty, but the setting is the same and the view of New Mexico's criminal underground is notably similar. that present a problem for Epix and creator Davey Holmes, he of Showtime's Shameless. It's the other stuff - writing, direction, editing, etc. In fact, most of the casting, including that of Rectify alum Sean Bridgers as Miles' right-hand man and Flaked's Ruth Kearney as a now-successful producer who once worked with Rick, is an indisputable coup. Casting Ray Romano as Rick Moreweather, a B-movie producer and Miles' eventual business partner, is another. Putting Chris O'Dowd in the lead role of Miles Daly, a loan shark and hitman working for a corrupt criminal organization in Albuquerque, is a good first step in this. There's no statute that says that Epix's very loose adaptation of the same material had to be similar in any way to what Sonnenfeld did and either way, it would've been wise to do something a bit different. ![]()
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