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Project Greenlight 2

Project Greenlight 2 debuts tonight.

by Andy Dehnart 22 Jun. 2003 | 6:00 am

Project Greenlight 2 debuts tonight.
Project Greenlight 2 debuts tonight at 10:30 p.m. on HBO, following the sixth season premiere of Sex and the City and an episode of The Wire. The one-hour premiere follows the narrowing of scripts and directors down to the final two winners. This weekend and next, two back-to-back half-hour episodes air; starting in July, just one half-hour episode will air on Sunday nights. As the film has been in production since March and the winners announced in January, the winners aren’t a secret, but stop reading if you want to be surprised. The screenplay selected was The Battle of Shaker Heights, which follows a high school kid who participates in World War 2 reenactments. Written by Erica Beeney, the film is being co-directed by Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin.

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Andy Dehnart’s writing and criticism about television, culture, and media has appeared on NPR and in Vulture, Pacific Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He has covered reality television for more than 18 years, and created reality blurred in 2000.

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