Tom Hanks Classic 'Big' is a TV Series Now, Too

Don't listen to people who say Hollywood is totally bereft of fresh ideas. Why, they've taken on the totally new idea of turning every one of your childhood favorite movies into TV shows. Okay, that may not be such a new concept, but the sheer volume of them is something we haven't seen before, and now you can add 1980s classic comedy Big to the list.

The light-hearted Tom Hanks film is being developed into an event series by Fox that will "explore what it means to be an adult and what it means to be a kid, and how in today's world those two things are more confused than ever." Could they have done this without using Big as the source material? Of course they could, but then they couldn't make use of the beloved film's name recognition. Running the show will be Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce (from the failed Fox comedy Enlisted), bringing us the story of a kid who makes a wish at a fortune telling machine, wakes up as an adult, dances on piano keys, gets hit on by Elizabeth Perkins, etc.

So it doesn't sound like this will be a continuing thing, but a miniseries similar to Fox's 24: Live Another Day. [TheWrap]