LOS ANGELES, Feb 3 — Fifteen years after the original movie was released, the American director is rebooting cop duo Alonzo Harris and Jake Hoyt in a small-screen sequel.

The show is due to be broadcast by CBS, the network currently screening an adaptation of Limitless.

America’s most-watched network has signed up a TV-based sequel to the movie Training Day.

The small-screen series will take the form of a reboot, setting the action 15 years after events in the 2001 movie.

CBS has got Antoine Fuqua and Jerry Bruckheimer back together to work on the new production. Antoine Fuqua, who directed the original movie, will be stepping back into his role to oversee the pilot episode, with Jerry Bruckheimer taking care of production.

However, it’s unlikely that CBS will manage to recruit the movie’s lead stars, Denzel Washington, who won an Oscar for his role as a corrupt narcotics officer in the L.A. Police Department, and Ethan Hawke, Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of a rookie cop whose ideals are still intact.

Sure-fire success?

Although Training Day met with critical acclaim on its release in 2001, that’s no guarantee that the small-screen adaptation will prove popular.

Although spin-off series based on movies are a hot trend on US TV right now, their success has been pretty mixed.

CBS scored a hit with Limitless, which started last September, drawing 10 million viewers, and the network is no doubt hoping for a repeat performance with Training Day.

Fox, on the other hand, canceled its adaptation of Minority Report after 10 episodes in November 2015 due to catastrophic viewing figures.

Before that, other movie-inspired series have slipped by more-or-less unnoticed, including adaptations of Bad Teacher, About a Boy, Taxi Brooklyn and Transporter: The Series.

But the trend shows no sign of slowing in the US.

On March 31, CBS will air a new version of Rush Hour and ABC is working on adaptations of Dirty Dancing and My Best Friend’s Wedding.

CW has a The Notebook series in the works, NBC is adapting Taken and In The Line of Fire, and Fox is cooking up small-screen versions of The Exorcist and Lethal Weapon.

So far, cable channels have perhaps proved more successful at winning over the public and critics with movie adaptations.

FX successfully turned the Coen brothers’ movie Fargo into a hit TV series in 2014.

Plus, HBO is set to screen Westworld later this year, a reworking of Michael Crichton’s full-length feature with J.J Abrams lined up for production and Anthony Hopkins on the cast.

The network is also working on a TV version of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. — AFP-Relaxnews