Fox is developing a new half-hour sitcom remake of the Tom Hanks and Penny Marshall classic from 1988, Big.
Chances are that if you’re a child of the ‘80s, you’ve seen your entire adolescence come back into swing over the last decade. And guess what? That trend of appealing to your inner-kid shows no signs of slowing down!
It was announced today that Fox has put into development a television series remake of the 1988 Penny Marshall classic, Big.
The film, which starred Tom Hanks as a young boy in an adult man’s body after making a fateful wish at a carnival’s fortune teller machine, was a staple of growing up after its release for at least a decade. It also starred Elizabeth Perkins and Robert Loggia when it made the human-sized piano keys at FAO Schwarz a permanent tourist attraction in New York.
The series is being configured as a half-hour sitcom at 20th Century Fox Television. It’s also being written and executive produced by Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce, the former of whom co-created Cougar Town, and both of whom executive produced Enlisted. Royce also acted as executive producer and showrunner on Lucky Louie (Louis C.K.’s pre-Louie HBO sitcom), and NBC’s 1600 Penn.
The series posits to explore what it means to be an adult and what it means to be a kid in the 21st century, and how those two things are increasingly becoming confused in the age of social media.
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