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Frears pilots 'Skip Tracer'
Stephen Frears plans to direct and produce a new TV drama for CBS.
Feb 6 2007
Riding high from the commercial and critical success of 'The Queen', Stephen Frears is heading for the small screen, directing a new pilot for CBS.
Sounding more than a little like current TV favourite 'Without a Trace', 'Skip Tracer' will star Stephen Dorff ('Blade', 'Backbeat') as a guy who finds people who have tried to disappear, though we're guessing Dorff will have more underhanded tactics than Anthony LaPaglia's crew.
Frears and Dorff will executive produce the project with writers Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green.
But before that there's the small matter of the Oscars, where Frears is a good outside bet to win the best director award should the Academy by-pass Martin Scorsese yet again.
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