80’s William Shatner TV cop show T.J. Hooker being adapted into a big screen action comedy

William Shatner’s cult classic cop drama T.J. Hooker is headed for the bigscreen as an action comedy with David Foster, Ryan Heppe and series creator Rick Husky producing, Variety reports. Chuck Russell is currently in negotiations to direct the upcoming adaptation, with Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson will script the story, which focuses on the relationship between the title character and his father. No actors have been attached to the film project yet.

The TV series premiered in 1982, and was produced by uber-TV producer Aaron Spelling for five seasons. William Shatner starred as police sergeant T.J. Hooker, with Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, Richard Herd and James Darren as co-stars.

“The series was the poster child for cop TV shows in the 1980s with great stunts, so we think there’s a fun movie to be made from it,” Heppe said.