Paul Haggis’ Crash is getting its long deserved and neglected TV spin-off. The multi-layered racial narrative, and obviously the best movie of 2004, follows 1967’s In The Heat Of The Night as only the second Best Picture Winner to get the TV treatment. The feature was inspired by Haggis’ real-life car-jacking experience, when he presumably realised that “there are people out there, people that are black, yellow, green and red, and some of them aren’t rich like me”. Only Don Cheadle is confirmed for returning to the fold, though I hear Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock and Ludacris are doing nothing, and can no doubt be coerced.
Cheadle - who first caught my eye during the turn-of-the-century’s glut of God As A Black Man roles* - will also undertake producing duties, on the 13 one-hour episodes. Crash currently resides as the IMDB’s 155th Best Film of All-Time, one below David Lean’s Brief Encounter.
If you have time, click here to watch a video of "In The Deep" by Bird York, as it was performed at the Oscars; perhaps the most pretentious and creepy Oscar performance ever, it came complete with what seem to definitely be zombies.
* = The Family Man. See Also: Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance, Samuel L Jackson in Unbreakable, Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile