Lawless is an American detective television series created by Ken Sanzel for Fox. Notable for starring former NFL player Brian Bosworth, it performed so poorly on television it was canceled after its premiere.
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Premise
The series centers on John Lawless, an ex-special forces operative who became a motorcycle riding private investigator in Miami's South Beach.
Cast
Brian Bosworth as John Lawless
Glenn Plummer as Reggie
Janet Hubert as Esther Hayes
Jay Amor as Manuel Oriba
Rus Blackwell as Todd
Oscar Torre as Rico
Production
The pilot was initially written and produced by Ken Sanzel, starred Daniel Baldwin as the lead, and had a vastly different tone from the final product. After the initial pilot was produced, Frank Lupo was hired as the showrunner and cast a new lead actor and reshot the show to be more in line with his prior work. In January 1997, it was reported that Brian Bosworth had been cast as the series lead with filming set to begin in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida after Bosworth and the producers decided against filming in Hawaii. On his decision to set the series in Florida instead of Hawaii, Bosworth stated he wanted to go for authenticity despite the allure of filming in Hawaii as he observed: