LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- ABC-TV has committed to a pilot of a "modern-day tale of good versus evil," inspired by federal agent Eliot Ness' 1920s pursuit of Al Capone.
The still unnamed program is being written by Shane Salerno and will be directed by Michael Bay, the duo who made the 1999 blockbuster, "Armageddon."
While Bay is a veteran of the movies "The Rock," "Pearl Harbor" and the "Bad Boys" films, this will be his first effort in television.
The show will follow an idealistic U.S. attorney and family man who leaves his powerful Washington position to return to his hometown of Chicago, the New York Post reported.
There he must take on a childhood friend, who has become a powerful mobster controlling the city with his criminal network, the Post said.
