William Petersen Hints at 'CSI' Film

William Petersen of the popular television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation may be set to leave the hit drama, but he has hinted he may return for a movie adaptation.

Petersen, who plays the widely famous forensics expert Gil Grissom, will be leaving the program after ten episodes of the forthcoming season.

The star says, “I’d love to see us make a CSI film. It could be good if we did it right. The whole world is interested in the show.”

The likelihood of a film version is giving weight to previous reports that his Grissom character won’t be killed off on the show.

“We’ve been mapping out my last 10 episodes that will take Grissom from one place to another,” Petersen adds.

He adds, “There will be no brain tumor for four episodes. That's the easy way out. ... We're trying to make it as real and close to reality as the show has been all along.”

But before that, fans will first deal with the loss of Gary Dourdan’s Warrick Brown, which was shot in the season finale.

Petersen will continue to serve as the show’s producer after his last episode. He states, “I’m going to come back and see the guys on set doing episodes I'm not in. And I'm staying on as a producer.

“The show is important to me, and I'm not abandoning it. I'm coming back on some level. I just don't know what yet.”

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