Last week it was announced that CBS has placed a pilot order for a TV series based upon the 2001 crime thriller Training Day, which would take place in the present day and revolve around a new rookie cop and their veteran partner.
Well, it seems that Ethan Hawke may be set for a return to the role of Jake Hoyt, with Deadline reporting that the actor has been approached about appearing in the series in a supporting/recurring role, and talks are said to be ongoing.
The Training Day series has been developed by director Antoine Fuqua and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with Will Beall (Gangster Squad) writing the script, and “centers on an idealistic young African-American police officer, Kyle, who is given an assignment by the Deputy Chief to go undercover with an elite squad of the LAPD and take down a morally ambiguous Caucasian detective, gaining the trust of the seasoned cop by becoming his new partner.”
According to Deadline, “there were two versions of the pilot script. In one, the corrupt older detective is Jake Hoyt. It was written to gauge Hawke’s interest in toplining the series. I hear that was not something Hawke — coming off an Oscar nomination for Boyhood — was interested in pursuing, so the alternate version of the script was greenlighted to pilot. In it, the rogue cop is a new character, Frank, while the Deputy Chief is Hoyt.”
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Originally published February 7, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
