Amadeus is returning to screens the same way that so many well-regarded movies from the 1980s do: as a television miniseries. The material is fair game for re-adaptation, given that the Oscar-winning 1984 film is itself based, like the miniseries, on a 1979 play; all three stories fictionalize a supposed (and largely one-sided) rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.