14 DAY TRIAL // Charlie Sheen is getting ready to make a comeback to television – and he’ll do so with the help of a producer with whom he’s worked several times in the past, to amazing results. His new show will be a loose version of “Anger Management.”
Reports about a new show have been around for months but, since nothing seemed likely to come of them, many assumed that they were just unfounded rumors.
Just recently, more details on the supposed upcoming project emerged online, saying that it would air no later than January 2012 and would not require a pilot, even if no network had yet shown an interest in it, as we also reported at the time.
TMZ is now saying that the show will be based on the hit comedy “Anger Management” with Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler, where Sheen would take on the former’s part in a made-for-TV script.
“Sources directly involved in the project say the man who is making it all happen is uber-producer Joe Roth, who produced and owns the screenplay to the 2003 movie, ‘Anger Management’,” the e-zine writes.
Roth has already worked with Sheen on various films, including “Major League” and “Young Guns,” and it is believed the two are also good friends.
“We’re told Charlie’s character will stray a bit from the movie role,” TMZ writes. “The plan as of now – Charlie’s character will be an ex-jock who got his master’s degree in social work during the offseason,” the report says.
“He becomes a counselor to defendants in the criminal justice system with anger management problems. But, of course, Charlie’s character will have anger issues of his own,” TMZ adds.
The new series will be produced by Lionsgate and, for the time being, a network for it has not been found just yet. The deal with Lionsgate is nearly done, the same report informs.
Official confirmation is pending, so make sure you keep an eye on this space for when it comes.