From: NewNowNext
At a recent book store opening event author Armisted Maupin revealed that his classic book series, Tales of the City might be making a return to TV soon.
Maupin released the ninth and final volume, The Days of Anna Madrigal, in his popular series last year, but now it seems that the characters might have another life on screen.
“How great would it be if people found out Mary Ann Singleton and Anna Madrigal were soon headed back to 28 Barbary Lane, and they found out from gossip heard in the Castro bookstore?” Maupin revealed during a reading from his upcoming memoir, Logical Family.
Tales of the City was first adapted to the screen as a 1993 PBS miniseries starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis. It was nominated for two Emmys and has since been heralded as one of the “top ten miniseries of all time” by Entertainment Weekly. Two follow ups were made: More Tales of the City (1998) on PBS and Further Tales of the City on Showtime in 2001.
Additional information about the upcoming sequel was posted on Maupin’s personal website:
“The series will be set in modern-day San Francisco, with 50-something Mary Ann Singleton returning to Barbary Lane,” as well as Michael Tolliver, who comes from “a difficult Christian family in Orlando.” Way before last week’s horrific events, Maupin had “already established 40 years ago that Michael’s parents were Florida orange growers, and his mother had joined the Anita Bryant crusade.”
Tales of the City was first published as a weekly serial in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976, eventually being turned into books that followed the characters in real time for the next four decades. Maupin’s description of the new series sounds like the plot from Mary Ann in Autumn, the eighth novel in the series.
Maupin also revealed that he and Linney traveled to Los Angeles last week to attend pitch meetings for the upcoming series and that Linney and Dukakis are already attached to star.
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