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FX today announced they have given a greenlight to Fargo, a TV version of the Academy Award winning Coen Brothers movie.

The project will be a “limited run series” (AKA, a miniseries) consisting of ten episodes. Joel & Ethan Coen will executive produce, with Noah Hawley (The Unusuals) writing and serving as showrunner. Warren Littlefield is also executive producing.

The series won’t retell the film’s storyline, but follow a new case – presumably with Marge Gunderson (played so memorably by Frances McDormand in the film) involved, though FX only says “new characters” will be a part of the story.

Angelina Jolie isn’t just a world-famous superstar. No, she’s also a film director now — and when you’re Angelina Jolie the film director, I guess you can get the Coen Bros. to rewrite your movie for you.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ethan and Joel Coen are tacking a crack at the script for Unbroken, Jolie’s planned film about World War II hero and former POW Louis Zamperini.

While the film will be based on the Laura Hillenbrand novel of the same name, the trade says Zamperini’s story has been in development at Universal for years. A track star who was in the 1936 Olympics, Zamperini went on to serve in the Air Force during World War II. When his B-24 went down in the Pacific in 1942, he and two crewmates spent 47 days at sea subsisting on rainwater and whatever small fish they could catch, all while fending off shark attacks. One crewmate, Francis “Mac” McNamara, died on the thirty-third day, but eventually the two survivors washed ashore on a Japanese island, where they were taken as prisoners of war. Zamperini spent two years of captivity and torture. He was eventually declared killed in action, before finally returning home at the end of the war.

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