Giving us yet another answer to the age-old question, “Hey, what if that was a TV show?,” Fox and Jerry Bruckheimer announced yesterday that they’re teaming up to make a six-hour event series — event series = fancy miniseries — based on Carrie Underwood’s music video for “Two Black Cadillacs.” From E! Online:
Underwood is attached to executive produce the 6-hour “event series” with uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The “event series” is being written by Necessary Roughness veteran Ildy Modrovich.
The show from Warner Bros. Television will delve into a love triangle in the South. It gets murderous, naturally, when a wife and mistress catch on to a philandering man and plot to kill him.
For those of you unfamiliar with the song, that description doesn’t quite do it justice. Take for example these lyrics:
Two months ago his wife called the number on his phone
Turns out he’d been lying to both of them for oh so long
They decided then he’d never get away with doing this to them
Two black Cadillacs waiting for the right time, right timeAnd the preacher said he was a good man
And his brother said he was a good friend
But the women in the two black veils didn’t bother to cry
Bye bye, Bye bye
Yeah they took turns laying a rose down
Threw a handful of dirt into the deep ground
He’s not the only one who had a secret to hide
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye
Yeah yeahIt was the first and the last time they saw each other face to face
They shared a crimson smile and just walked away
And left the secret at the grave
This could either be kinda good or really, really bad, and I don’t see much of a possibility of it ending up anywhere in-between. My only hope is that it kicks off a trend of music videos being adapted into television shows. One based on “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias could run for five seasons on FX, easy.
