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Game on, man! With the Training Day TV version looking to switch the ethnicities of the two main roles, the team needed someone who could play a tough lead cop. They've now chosen Bill Paxton , who will be a morally questionable LAPD officer. Paxton is on to play Franke Rourke, a veteran cop heading up the Special Investigation Section that goes after the worst of the worst of the criminals in the City of Angels. He's more than willing to bend or even break the rules to take down the bad guys that the law seemingly can't touch. The new series, which is set 15 years after Antoine Fuqua's film, will look at LAPD policing the way it is now, as an idealistic young African-American officer joins the squad, but begins to have doubts over Rourke's methods. Though Fuqua had been in line to direct the pilot based on Will Beall's script, he's had to step aside due to scheduling issues, so Danny Cannon, a veteran of launching shows such as the CSI series, will t...

THR is reporting Antoine Fuqua will direct the follow-up to his 2001 feature film of the same name. TV's big remake push is showing no signs of slowing down. In a competitive situation, CBS has handed out a hefty pilot-production commitment to a Training Day follow-up based on the 2001 film of the same name, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Based on the feature film from Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures, the potential series will take place 15 years after the movie. The planned Training Day series is set in the LAPD of 2015. ( Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington starred in the feature.) Antoine Fuqua, who directed the feature film, will helm the pilot, which was written by feature writer and former LAPD detective Will Beall. Jerry Bruckheimer Television's Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman will executive produce alongside Fuqua and Beall. The drama hails from Warner Bros. Television, where Bruckheimer is based, and Fuqua Films. Training Day comes a...