A new urban legend comes to life in the new trailer for Dark Harvest. The trailer starts with the ominous, almost Grimm fairy tale-esque narration that says, “It’s Halloween. You know what that means. Old Sawtooth Jack is gonna rise from the cornfields. It’s gotta be stopped. Kill or be killed.” David Slade returns to a grittier tone after the Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night director took on one of the chapters in the Twilight franchise, helming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The director also returns to features after Slade tried his hand at television with Breaking Bad and Black Mirror. He also once set to make a series, Red Bird Lane, with Crispin Glover and Susan Sarandon until Max (HBO Max at the time) opted not to continue with it.
Slade has now adapted Norman Partridge’s Halloween-themed novel (you can pick up a copy of...
Slade has now adapted Norman Partridge’s Halloween-themed novel (you can pick up a copy of...
- 9/13/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Darby Kane’s bestselling suspense novel Pretty Little Wife is getting the small screen treatment. Amazon Studios is developing a series based on the book with Gabrielle Union set to star and executive produce. Meredith Lavender, Marcie Ulin and Kristen SaBerre will write and executive produce the project for Prime Video, from A+E Studios and Range Media Partners.
Based on Kane’s international bestseller, Pretty Little Wife is a cat-and-mouse thriller with a pulpy edge and some sexy soap that centers around two brilliant — and very different — Black women: Lily, the pretty little wife suspected of murdering her husband, and Ginny, the detective on the case. Upon entering each other’s lives, they begin to crack open each other’s façade to reveal what really lies beneath.
Project is executive produced by Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson for A+E Studios, Range Media Partners and Union via her I’ll...
Based on Kane’s international bestseller, Pretty Little Wife is a cat-and-mouse thriller with a pulpy edge and some sexy soap that centers around two brilliant — and very different — Black women: Lily, the pretty little wife suspected of murdering her husband, and Ginny, the detective on the case. Upon entering each other’s lives, they begin to crack open each other’s façade to reveal what really lies beneath.
Project is executive produced by Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson for A+E Studios, Range Media Partners and Union via her I’ll...
- 4/24/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO Max has ordered a pilot of Ke Nui Road, a lifeguard drama from John Wells and Animal Kingdom writer Matt Kester.
The West Wing and Shameless exec producer had set up the project in development at the streamer last year as part of his overall deal with Warner Bros. Television.
Kester, who also has worked on WGN’s Outsiders and ABC’s Forever, will write and exec produce the pilot, which will be directed and exec produced by Wells. Erin Jontow, President of Television at John Wells Productions, also will exec produce.
2020-21 HBO Max Pilots & Series Orders
Ke Nui Road is a contemporary drama set on the North Shore of Oahu, focusing on the relationships between an elite crew of heavy-water lifeguards and the teens and young adults they mentor and train in the junior lifeguard program. The junior guards program embodies the beauty, the danger, the struggle,...
The West Wing and Shameless exec producer had set up the project in development at the streamer last year as part of his overall deal with Warner Bros. Television.
Kester, who also has worked on WGN’s Outsiders and ABC’s Forever, will write and exec produce the pilot, which will be directed and exec produced by Wells. Erin Jontow, President of Television at John Wells Productions, also will exec produce.
2020-21 HBO Max Pilots & Series Orders
Ke Nui Road is a contemporary drama set on the North Shore of Oahu, focusing on the relationships between an elite crew of heavy-water lifeguards and the teens and young adults they mentor and train in the junior lifeguard program. The junior guards program embodies the beauty, the danger, the struggle,...
- 6/28/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Zachary Quinto is an executive producer on Emrhys Cooper’s directing debut.
LA-based Mind the Gap Productions, led by Giulia Prenna, has come on board to handle world sales on The Shuroo Process, the directorial debut of UK actor/filmmaker Emrhys Cooper.
Zachary Quinto is an executive producer on the project, which has just been completed and makes its market premiere at the EFM.
The cast includes Brad Dourif (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) and his daughter Fiona Dourif (Shameless), who was recently confirmed as the star of HBO Max’s new YA drama Red Bird Lane. Other cast...
LA-based Mind the Gap Productions, led by Giulia Prenna, has come on board to handle world sales on The Shuroo Process, the directorial debut of UK actor/filmmaker Emrhys Cooper.
Zachary Quinto is an executive producer on the project, which has just been completed and makes its market premiere at the EFM.
The cast includes Brad Dourif (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) and his daughter Fiona Dourif (Shameless), who was recently confirmed as the star of HBO Max’s new YA drama Red Bird Lane. Other cast...
- 3/1/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Zachary Quinto is an executive producer on Emrhys Cooper’s directing debut.
LA-based Mind the Gap Films, led by Giulia Prenna, has come on board to handle world sales on The Shuroo Process, the directorial debut of UK actor/filmmaker Emrhys Cooper.
Zachary Quinto is an executive producer on the project, which has just been completed and makes its market premiere at the EFM.
The cast includes Brad Dourif (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) and his daughter Fiona Dourif (Shameless), who was recently confirmed as the star of HBO Max’s new YA drama Red Bird Lane. Other cast...
LA-based Mind the Gap Films, led by Giulia Prenna, has come on board to handle world sales on The Shuroo Process, the directorial debut of UK actor/filmmaker Emrhys Cooper.
Zachary Quinto is an executive producer on the project, which has just been completed and makes its market premiere at the EFM.
The cast includes Brad Dourif (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) and his daughter Fiona Dourif (Shameless), who was recently confirmed as the star of HBO Max’s new YA drama Red Bird Lane. Other cast...
- 3/1/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: HBO Max has opted not to proceed with Vegas High, its coming-of-age period drama pilot from writer Sarah-Raquel Jimenez, director Gillian Robespierre and Michael Showalter’s Semi-Formal Prods.
The pilot, which starred newcomer Raegan Rozas, Jordana Spiro and Josh Andrés Rivera, was inspired by Jimenez’s own experience. It is a 1990s-set coming-of-age story about Laura (Rozas), a girl who’s caught between two worlds: the fast-paced lifestyle of Las Vegas and her strong Mormon faith and community.
Jimenez and Robespierre executive produced alongside Showalter and Jordana Mollick for Semi-Formal and Michael Lewen.
HBO Max also recently passed on psychological thriller drama pilot Red Bird Lane starring Susan Sarandon while picking up to pilot Julia Child pilot Julia.
The pilot, which starred newcomer Raegan Rozas, Jordana Spiro and Josh Andrés Rivera, was inspired by Jimenez’s own experience. It is a 1990s-set coming-of-age story about Laura (Rozas), a girl who’s caught between two worlds: the fast-paced lifestyle of Las Vegas and her strong Mormon faith and community.
Jimenez and Robespierre executive produced alongside Showalter and Jordana Mollick for Semi-Formal and Michael Lewen.
HBO Max also recently passed on psychological thriller drama pilot Red Bird Lane starring Susan Sarandon while picking up to pilot Julia Child pilot Julia.
- 2/11/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO Max has opted not to proceed with Red Bird Lane, its drama pilot starring Susan Sarandon.
Red Bird Lane, written by Sara Gran and directed by David Slade, is a psychological thriller that follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons. Upon their mysterious and coincidental arrival, the strangers realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them.
Kiersey Clemons, Isidora Goreshter, Danny Huston, Ash Santos, Fiana Dourif, Dizzie Harris, Tara Lynne Barr and Crispin Glover co-starred in the pilot, executive produced by Gran, Slade, John Wells and Erin Jontow. Warner Bros. Television was the studio.
HBO Max employs a mix of pilot and straight-to-series orders. The streamer recently picked up another drama pilot, Julia, to series.
Red Bird Lane, written by Sara Gran and directed by David Slade, is a psychological thriller that follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons. Upon their mysterious and coincidental arrival, the strangers realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them.
Kiersey Clemons, Isidora Goreshter, Danny Huston, Ash Santos, Fiana Dourif, Dizzie Harris, Tara Lynne Barr and Crispin Glover co-starred in the pilot, executive produced by Gran, Slade, John Wells and Erin Jontow. Warner Bros. Television was the studio.
HBO Max employs a mix of pilot and straight-to-series orders. The streamer recently picked up another drama pilot, Julia, to series.
- 2/10/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, Peacock has made various titles from Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network available, and HBO Max renewed “12 Dates of Christmas” for a second season.
Casting
HBO Max revealed that “Red Bird Lane” has added Crispin Glover to its cast of series regulars, while James Urbaniak, Jamie Clayton, Rya Kihlstedt, Grantham Coleman and Damon Dayoub are set to guest star. Recurring guest stars include . “Red Bird Lane” is a thriller revolving around a house in isolation. Eight different people show up to the house for various different reasons before coming to the realization that they are being met with much more than anticipated. Previously announced series regulars include Susan Sarandon, Kiersey Clemons, Isidora Goreshter, Danny Huston, Ash Santos, Fiana Dourif, Dizzie Harris and Tara Lynne Barr.
Renewals
HBO Max renewed dating reality series “12 Dates of Christmas” for Season 2. The initial season premiered this year on Nov.
Casting
HBO Max revealed that “Red Bird Lane” has added Crispin Glover to its cast of series regulars, while James Urbaniak, Jamie Clayton, Rya Kihlstedt, Grantham Coleman and Damon Dayoub are set to guest star. Recurring guest stars include . “Red Bird Lane” is a thriller revolving around a house in isolation. Eight different people show up to the house for various different reasons before coming to the realization that they are being met with much more than anticipated. Previously announced series regulars include Susan Sarandon, Kiersey Clemons, Isidora Goreshter, Danny Huston, Ash Santos, Fiana Dourif, Dizzie Harris and Tara Lynne Barr.
Renewals
HBO Max renewed dating reality series “12 Dates of Christmas” for Season 2. The initial season premiered this year on Nov.
- 12/17/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
Six more characters are coming to the pilot for HBO Max’s psychological thriller Red Bird Lane. Crispin Glover will join the cast as a series regular and James Urbaniak, Jamie Clayton, Rya Kihlstedt and Grantham Coleman will appear as recurring. Damon Dayoub will guest star.
Red Bird Lane, written by Sara Gran and directed by David Slade, is a psychological thriller that follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons. Upon their mysterious and coincidental arrival, the strangers realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them.
Glover will play Jonah, a bad man who arrives at the mysterious house in the center of the thriller for money. Glover is known for playing George McFly in Back to the Future and Willard Stiles in Willard. The actor, filmmaker and author has also appeared in American Gods and Alice in Wonderland. He is repped by APA.
Red Bird Lane, written by Sara Gran and directed by David Slade, is a psychological thriller that follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons. Upon their mysterious and coincidental arrival, the strangers realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them.
Glover will play Jonah, a bad man who arrives at the mysterious house in the center of the thriller for money. Glover is known for playing George McFly in Back to the Future and Willard Stiles in Willard. The actor, filmmaker and author has also appeared in American Gods and Alice in Wonderland. He is repped by APA.
- 12/17/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Crispin Glover is on his way to Red Bird Lane, as one of the latest cast additions to HBO Max’s upcoming psychological horror series.
Announced back in August 2019, Red Bird Lane follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons, and quickly realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them. Susan Sarandon (Ray Donovan) plays Catherine, the strangers’ brilliant and beautiful (and murderous?) hostess. Sara Gran (Southland) penned the pilot.
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Announced back in August 2019, Red Bird Lane follows eight strangers who arrive at an isolated house, all for different reasons, and quickly realize that something sinister and terrifying awaits them. Susan Sarandon (Ray Donovan) plays Catherine, the strangers’ brilliant and beautiful (and murderous?) hostess. Sara Gran (Southland) penned the pilot.
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- 12/17/2020
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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