David Simon Almost Made The Wire a Film — The Decision That Changed Television Forever
2026/06/15
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David Simon Almost Made The Wire a Film — The Decision That Changed Television Forever
Before there was a pilot, before HBO said yes, before a single frame was shot in Baltimore, David Simon faced a choice: tell this story as a film, or demand the space that only television could give him.
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He'd already written the book. The Corner — his nonfiction account of a Baltimore family swallowed by the drug epidemic — had become an HBO miniseries in 2000. It was good. Simon knew it wasn't enough. The story he wanted to tell about Baltimore's institutions — the police, the courts, the schools, the newspapers — couldn't be compressed into two hours.
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