Published May 8, 2026, 8:15 a.m. ET Photo: Everett Collection 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. Not only did the original film win Best Picture, F. Murray Abraham won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Salieri, the film’s tragic, jealous, shaken-up point-of-view character who yearns to achieve Mozart’s level of seemingly God-given genius. Abraham’s subsequent career was more character actor than movie star, but he has remained a fixture in film and TV over the past four decades. Ironically, it’s the actor who played the immature, irresponsible Mozart who has received less recognition over the years.…