Apocalypse Now writer penning miniseries for AMC

John Milius, who wrote the screenplay for Apocalypse Now and also served as a writer and producer on the HBO series Rome, will be writing a miniseries about photojournalists in Vietnam, set to air on AMC. The miniseries will be called Saigon Bureau, and unfortunately that's all we know at this point.

I'm hoping for a miniseries in which all the photojournalists are similar to Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now: crazy, hopped up on drugs and ending every sentence with "maaaaaaaaan." Of course, that describes pretty much every movie Hopper made in the '70s, but what the hell, you go with what suits you.

As many have pointed out, American Movie Classics has been drifting away from "classic movies" for some time, but given the talent behind some of the new series being developed for the network, and the fact that Turner Classic Movies has always done the "classic movies" thing better anyway, I have no complaints about this new direction.

[via TV Filter]