Fox has ordered a put pilot of The Cure, co-written by famed pop science writer Malcolm Gladwell. Per Deadline, The Cure is a medical thriller starring “a young, impulsive African-American neurologist who decides to take the law into her own hands" while fighting against a deadly disease. While Gladwell's last TV script — for the HBO Cold War drama The Missionary — never made it past pilot stage, hopefully they'll give this one the requisite 10,000 hours to hit its stride.
- 8/27/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
Exclusive: ABC has put in development a crime thriller from writer Charles Randolph (Love and Other Drugs), Peter Traugott’s Tbd Entertainment and Sweden-based Yellow Bird Entertainment. The project, from Universal TV where Tbd is based, is an adaptation of the best-selling novels by Liza Marklund that also were the basis for the hit Swedish drama series Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter, also produced by Yellow Bird (watch the trailer below). Written by Randolph, the drama centers on a dogged, no-nonsense tabloid reporter searching for the truth while also juggling her bosses and her family. Randolph is executive producing with Tbd’s Traugott and Rachel Kaplan and Yellow Bird’s Jenny Gilbertsson and Berna Levin. This marks the latest sale for Tbd this season for a total of three dramas and six comedies at NBC, Fox and USA. Yellow Bird recently teamed with Chernin Entertainment to develop a series based on another Swedish crime novel,...
- 10/31/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
NBC has begun developing the drama series "Ghost Projekt" based on Joe Harris' graphic novel series. Andre Ovredal and John Glenn are penning the scripts, with the former set to direct the pilot.
The story centers on an American Un weapons inspector and a Russian Fsb agent who are forced to team up to chase a group of thieves. The crooks have stolen dangerous supernatural material from an abandoned Soviet weapons lab.
Meanwhile, HBO has decided to pass on its Cold War spy drama pilot "The Missionary" which Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg produced.
Charles Randolph penned and Baltasar Kormakur helmed the pilot about an American missionary (Benjamin Walker) trying to help a young woman escape East Berlin in the late 1960s.
Source: Deadline...
The story centers on an American Un weapons inspector and a Russian Fsb agent who are forced to team up to chase a group of thieves. The crooks have stolen dangerous supernatural material from an abandoned Soviet weapons lab.
Meanwhile, HBO has decided to pass on its Cold War spy drama pilot "The Missionary" which Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg produced.
Charles Randolph penned and Baltasar Kormakur helmed the pilot about an American missionary (Benjamin Walker) trying to help a young woman escape East Berlin in the late 1960s.
Source: Deadline...
- 9/20/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: HBO has passed on The Missionary, its Cold War spy drama pilot from Charles Randolph, producers Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg and author Malcolm Gladwell. Set in late-’60s Berlin, The Missionary – written by Randolph and directed by Baltasar Kormakur — centered on Roy (Benjamin Walker), a young American missionary who gets caught up in Cold War intrigue while helping a young woman escape East Berlin. It was greenlighted to pilot in June 2012.
- 9/19/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur ("Contraband," "The Deep") and his Rvk label are teaming with Ccp Games for a TV series set within the interstellar universe of the Mmorpg "Eve Online".
Set 20,000 years into the future, the story deals with rival societies trapped in the same space by a collapsed wormhole and characters from five warring factions battle it out in space ships.
The series will take inspiration from user-sourced stories submitted to the Eve website. Kormákur is currently filming "The Missionary" in Hungary.
Source: Deadline...
Set 20,000 years into the future, the story deals with rival societies trapped in the same space by a collapsed wormhole and characters from five warring factions battle it out in space ships.
The series will take inspiration from user-sourced stories submitted to the Eve website. Kormákur is currently filming "The Missionary" in Hungary.
Source: Deadline...
- 4/29/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: 2 Guns helmer Baltasar Kormákur and his Rvk shingle are flying into the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing gaming (Mmorpg) with Ccp Games, maker of the popular Eve Online game. The companies announced the pact this weekend in Kormákur’s native Iceland. The TV venture is an original concept set 20,000 in the future within the interstellar Eve Online universe in which rival societies are trapped in the same space by a collapsed wormhole and characters from five warring factions battle it out in space ships. Keeping with the player-driven nature of the game, the series will take inspiration from user-sourced stories submitted to the Eve website. Meanwhile Kormákur’s 2 Guns hits screens August 2 via Universal. He’s currently filming The Missionary in Hungary and also has his Christian Bale-starrer Everest in the works for Universal and Working Title. Kormákur is repped by Wme, Management 360 and Peter Nelson.
- 4/28/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: 2 Guns helmer Baltasar Kormákur and his Rvk shingle are flying into the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing gaming (Mmorpg) with Ccp Games, maker of the popular Eve Online game. The companies announced the pact this weekend in Kormákur’s native Iceland. The TV venture is an original concept set 20,000 in the future within the interstellar Eve Online universe in which rival societies are trapped in the same space by a collapsed wormhole and characters from five warring factions battle it out in space ships. Keeping with the player-driven nature of the game, the series will take inspiration from user-sourced stories submitted to the Eve website. Meanwhile Kormákur’s 2 Guns hits screens August 2 via Universal. He’s currently filming The Missionary in Hungary and also has his Christian Bale-starrer Everest in the works for Universal and Working Title. Kormákur is repped by Wme, Management 360 and Peter Nelson.
- 4/28/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Kristin Chenoweth is set to co-star opposite fellow Broadway boldface Matthew Broderick in CBS‘ untitled Tad Quill multi-camera comedy pilot directed by James Burrows. The project, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Jack (Broderick), a recently widowed father who raises his 12-year old son while jumping back into the dating pool. Chenoweth, repped by CAA, Untitled and attorney James Adams, will play Marnie, Jack’s cute but judgmental sister who works as a waitress at a nice but not-too-upscale restaurant. It is not clear if the two siblings share any musical talent. This marks Chenoweth’s return to CBS where she was booked for a major arc on The Good Wife last season, which was cut short by an on-set accident that injured the Tony-winner. Gayle Rankin will co-star opposite Ben Walker and Jesse Plemons in HBO’s Cold War spy drama pilot The Missionary, from Charles Randolph, Stephen Levinson...
- 4/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
A tale of Big Media is coming to cable. Continuing its recent moves toward original scripted series, Bravo is developing the drama Moguls. The series will follow the professional and personal challenges of a media boss and his family. “Moguls will be similar in tone to The West Wing,” an insider says. While the series may or may not have the walking-and-talking motif that characterized Aaron Sorkin’s political drama, Moguls will have a media boss of its own: Michael Jackson, the former chairman of Universal Television and former CEO of the UK’s Channel 4, will serve as executive producer on the show. Love And Other Drugs screenwriter Charles Randolph and playwright Sharyn Rothstein are working on a pilot script now, we are told. In her TV debut, Rothstein will be Moguls’ supervising producer. Randolph will serve as an executive producer; he also is working on the Cold War pilot for HBO The Missionary,...
- 12/11/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
In Deep Mark Wahlberg and director Baltasar Kormakur (with Kormakur's wife at the Thompson Hotel this week.) are in deep. The three, along with the Icelandic ambassador, a contingent from Wme, and others from the film community toasted "The Deep," Iceland's official entry for the Academy Awards. Kormakur and Wahlberg are riding a successful streak of collaborations following "Contraband" with the just-wrapped "2 Guns" and an HBO project "The Missionary" in development. When Kormakur's "The Deep" opened in his native Iceland, it took 50% of the weekend's box office and has been screening non-stop...
- 12/1/2012
- by Mikey Glazer
- The Wrap
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