Wearily acknowledging that movies pretty much now only exist so that idea-strapped executives can turn them into TV shows a few years down the line, NBC has announced that it’s turning the Red film series—itself based off of a comic book by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner—into a new, hour-long action-comedy Like the movies, the show will focus on the lives of retired intelligence operatives—probably not played by Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, or Morgan Freeman anymore, since palling around every few years to fire machines at each other on a movie set is one thing, and making a series commitment to do it all the time is very much another—but will apparently be “more grounded and authentic.”