"The Nice Guys" being turned into "The Nice Girls" TV series

[cinemaphile]

Seriously? Why?

Nice Guys was guys, now it's girls.
It was set in the 70's, this is contemporary
It was written by the genius that is Shane Black, this is being written by the guy who wrote 30 Minutes or Less.

I am not saying this is a Ghostbusters situation where people will just hate on it because of the gender switch. I just don't see the point.
How is it even the same thing? Why not just make up a new series? What's the point of making it an adaptation of Nice Guys?

Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to The Nice Girls, a contemporary female take on the Joel Silver-produced 2016 feature film The Nice Guys, which starred Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe and was co-written and directed by Silver’s frequent collaborator Shane Black. .

The project hails from Silver Pictures through Silver’s first-look deal at Lionsgate and will be co-production between Lionsgate TV, 20th TV and Silver Pictures TV.

The TV series adaptation will be written by Michael Diliberti, who wrote 30 Minutes or Less for Sony/Columbia. Silver and Rodney Ferrell, president of Silver Pictures Television, will serve as executive producers alongside Diliberti and Ken Kao.

http://deadline.com/2017/09/the-nice...er-1202178759/