LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Clearly there needs to be a "Parent Trap" for
every generation and the kids of today are lucky enough that they deserve
two. A new group of twins (or a new actress and some optical effects) will
try to reunite their estranged parents in ABC's series take on "The Parent
Trap."
The network has given a script commitment to the project from Touchstone TV
and "Smallville" and "One Tree Hill" producers Tollin/Robbins Prods.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Don Beck ("8 Simple Rules") will write
the script, which shifts the story's emphasis off of the twins (played by
Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills in the 1961 Disney classic and Lindsay Lohan
and Lindsay Lohan in the 1998 Disney remake).
"We are refocusing the story so it is more from the perspective of two very
different parents, but the twins will obviously have a prominent position,"
Brian Robbins says.
In other ABC pilot news, a trio of newcomers will play the leads in "Doing
It," a series adaptation of Melvin Burgess' British coming-of-age novel
about three 16-year-old boys and their lives and sexcapades. Sean Farris,
Chris Lowell and Jon Foster will star in the greenlit pilot from Touchstone
TV and Stu Bloomberg. Former "Freaks and Geeks" scribes Jeff Judah and Gabe
Sachs wrote the pilot.
"It looks at three boys at the time of their life when one minute they can
just be the biggest insensitive assholes hounding girls for sex and the next
minute they can be incredibly sensitive and wonderfully soulful,"
Bloomberg explains to the HR.
After causing controversy in the United Kingdom, "Doing It" is set for a
United States release on June 1.
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