T.J. Hooker is trading the small screen for the silver screen. Deadline reported on Tuesday, August 5, that Netflix secured the rights for a film version of the beloved cop series. Instead of sticking to its drama roots,

Netflix Is Reviving This Iconic ’80s Cop Show With a Movie Reboot originally appeared on Parade. Netflix is rebooting ’80s favorite T.J. Hooker, the hit cop show that featured William Shatner in one of his most memorable roles, but this time around it’s getting the feature-length film treatment.

An action-comedy film adaptation of the 1980s police procedural series “T. J. Hooker” is in the works at Netflix after the streamer landed rights to the property. The original series starred William Shatner in his first major television role since the cancellation of the original “Star Trek” more than 10 years earlier (though by the