A new TV show based on the cinema classic The Blues Brothers is currently in development.
The widow of original star John Belushi has teamed up with Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts to pen a script for a small screen adaptation of the 1980 movie, which will star Kieron Lafferty and Wayne Catania as Jake and Elwood Blue — played by Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the original movie.
Lafferty and Catania currently play the musical pair in the touring Blues Brother Review.
“I’ve written a script with one of the Saturday Night Live writers, Anne Beatts, and with Kieran and Wayne. …We have scripted it over six to eight shows where they are on a mission down the Mississippi back to New Orleans,” Judy Belushi Pisano revealed to Undercover.com.au this week.