PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Academy Award-winning movie that was filmed in Oregon in the 1970s, is now getting its own television series, according to entertainment outlets.
Inspired by the 1962 Ken Kesey novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” is in development for a TV series, with plans for at least two seasons, as reported by Entertainment Weekly on Sunday.
While the film focused on Jack Nicholson’s character Randle Patrick “Mac” Murphy — a convict sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation, where he encourages other patients to defy the head nurse — the TV series will be told from the perspective of Chief Bromden (played in the film by Will Sampson), EW reports…