Next year's Russell Croweled movie remake of State of Play, the tense BBC miniseries, has loads to live up to: There's Paul Abbott's slick script, adroitly linking the mysterious, seemingly random murders of a purse snatcher and a political researcher. There's Bill Nighy's BAFTA-winning turn as the cranky newsman whose team (James McAvoy, John Simm, and Kelly Macdonald) cracks the case. And there's David Yates' adrenalized direction, which Abbott says in a commentary — one of two composing the EXTRAS — can ''make it look ordinary...then let the absolute panic surface.'' A
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STATE OF PLAY
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ADetails Release Date: Feb 26, 2008; DVD Release Date: Feb 26, 2008; With: James McAvoy, David Morrissey, Bill Nighy and John Simm; Distributor: BBC America
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