Tag: The Fugitive

  • Zee English to debut ‘The Fugitive’ on 27 October

    Zee English to debut ‘The Fugitive’ on 27 October

    MUMBAI: Zee English will premiere the thriller series The Fugitive. The weekly action-adventure series launches on 27 October, and will air every Wednesday at 8 pm.

    The show replacing reruns of the gangster flick Soprano’s tells story of a man, who stays true to his profession irrespective of the circumstances.

    The Fugitive deals with a doctor, wrongly accused for his wife’s murder. He later on becomes a fugitive on the run for the Police, but a savior for many people throughout his journey to find the right culprit, says a company release.

    The show that aired on CBS in early 2000 in the US is an action thriller produced by Arnold Kopelson, Anne Kopelson and stars Tim Daly, Mykelti Williamson, and Stephen Lang.

    The Fugitive’s basic premise is picked from a 1963-67 television series of the same name and the 1993 Harrison Ford film.

    While it is establish right in the first episode that doc Kimble is innocent, that the real murderer is the one-armed man played by Lang), and that a relentless detective named Gerard (Williamson) is hot on his trail.

    Speaking about the new launch Zee English business head Ajay Trigunayat said, “With the launch of The Fugitive, Zee English brings to its viewers more excitement this season. Keeping with the trend of airing the best of programmes to our viewers, Zee English has taken a step forward in this direction. We are sure that our viewers will watch The Fugutive with great enthusiasm.”

    Adding further Trigunayat said, “We are positive that this show will give the channel a new dimension the way viewers look at thrillers, as in the past too we had received stupendous success for shows like Witch blade and The Sopranos.”

  • Columbia Tristar moves off the beaten track with western ‘The Missing’

    Columbia Tristar moves off the beaten track with western ‘The Missing’

    MUMBAI: This weekend Columbia Tristar India will give the discerning viewer something quite different in the form of a western. Its movie The Missing storms into cinemas across the country from 27 February

    The film stars Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones The Fugitive and Oscar nominee Cate Blanchett Elizabeth. Reminiscent of the John Ford classic The Searchers the film tells the story of a woman (Blanchett) who goes out to rescue her daughter (an under used Evan Rachel Wood) after she is kidnapped by a strange Indian played by a scary Eric Schweig in 1885. To accomplish this task she seeks the help of her estranged father (Jones) who had deserted the family many years ago in oder to live with the Indians.

    The studio had a press screening this morning. The film’s mood is heightened by the stark cinematogrpahy. Salvatore Totino deserved Oscar attention for his work which is on par or even better than some of the nominees. The film has been directed by Ron Howard and is comfortably his darkest film till now. What is new in the film compared to recent entries like Open Range and the Eastwood classic Unforgiven is that it introduces the mythic element.

    This writer is surprised at the many negative reviews that the film received as well as its poor performance at the box office in the US. Of course it could be the case that some of the critics and film fans out there are averse to the contemporary western in general. Because Jones’ character has imbibed the Indian way of life the viewer gets a more rounded picture of their beliefs and can identify with them that much better.