ALL OF ME Reboot Heading to Television as Half Hour Comedy at NBC

Deadline reports that Carl Riner's 1984 ALL OF ME, which starred Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, is headed to television.

NBC is currently developing a half-hour comedy series loosly based on the body-swapping feature comedy. MY BOYS creator Betsy Thomas is set to write and serve as executive producer/showrunner. Universal Television, whose sibling Universal Pictures produced the movie, is the studio.

In 1984, ALL OF ME starred Martin as attorney Roger Cobb hired by dying eccentric millionairess Edwina Cutwater (Tomlin) to rework her will, making a beautiful young woman her soul beneficiary. Edwina arranges for a mystic to transfer her soul into the young woman's body, but, when the transfer goes awry, Roger ends up having to share his body with Edwina's soul.

The NBC series would be an anthology series in which the protagonist will jump into a new person's body each week, helping to solve the problems they cannot solve themselves.

Thomas is executive producing with Dimitri Logothetis as well as Todd Garner and Jeremy Stein of Broken Road Productions. While Martin has no current involvement with the project, there are talks he could jump into a producing position. Garner and Martin have worked with one another in the past, Garner being the studio executive on the Martin-starring FATHER OF THE BRIDE movies.

ALL OF ME is not the only movie-adaptation in the works this TV development season. NBC gave a series order to TAKEN and is also developing new takes on CRUEL INTENTIONS and IN THE LINE OF FIRE. FOX has a LETHAL WEAPON, THINK LIKE A MAN and BEHIND ENEMY LINES series in the works, while ABC is rebooting MY BIG FRIEND'S WEDDING. CBS is developing TRAINING DAY and The CW has THE NOTEBOOK.

Watch the trailer for the original film below:

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