Exclusive: A late marquee drama package with Carol Mendelsohn writing and Morris Chestnut starring has landed at Fox with a big put pilot commitment that has hefty penalty attached. The project, The Long Walk, which brings Rosewood star Chestnut back into the Fox fold, hails from Sony Pictures TV Studios where Mendelsohn is under an overall deal. Written by former CSI maven Mendelsohn, The Long Walk is based on the upcoming novel The Bomb Maker by Thomas Perry. When a…...
- 10/13/2017
- Deadline TV
Hold on to your butts, because film vet Samuel L. Jackson has signed on for his first TV-starring role, in an adaptation of the Thomas Perry novel The Old Man, our sister site Deadline reports.
Jackson will play Dan Chase, a former Army intelligence officer who has been on the run for 35 years after a botched operation in Libya. Thinking he is safe at his home in Vermont, Chase learns that trouble always has a way of catching up to you.
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Old Man,...
Jackson will play Dan Chase, a former Army intelligence officer who has been on the run for 35 years after a botched operation in Libya. Thinking he is safe at his home in Vermont, Chase learns that trouble always has a way of catching up to you.
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- 7/28/2017
- TVLine.com
We caught wind of three new series in the works at The CW which, while not strictly horror-based, should still be of interest to genre fans. Read on for the details!
First up is an original project called "Sick" from Trey Callaway (co-executive producer of "CSI: NY") and Sean Hood (Halloween: Resurrection, Fear Itself, and "Masters of Horror"), who wrote the script and sold it directly to The CW. "Sick" is set in a world where youths are quarantined after a mysterious virus makes adults allergic to teenagers. Described as a cross between Contagion and The Hunger Games, it centers on a band of teens who escape from their containment units and go on the run from authorities.
Next is "Jane Whitefield," based on the Vanishing Act book series by Thomas Perry. Produced by Carol Mendelsohn ("CSI") and written by Natalie Chaidez ("Heroes," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"), "Jane Whitefield...
First up is an original project called "Sick" from Trey Callaway (co-executive producer of "CSI: NY") and Sean Hood (Halloween: Resurrection, Fear Itself, and "Masters of Horror"), who wrote the script and sold it directly to The CW. "Sick" is set in a world where youths are quarantined after a mysterious virus makes adults allergic to teenagers. Described as a cross between Contagion and The Hunger Games, it centers on a band of teens who escape from their containment units and go on the run from authorities.
Next is "Jane Whitefield," based on the Vanishing Act book series by Thomas Perry. Produced by Carol Mendelsohn ("CSI") and written by Natalie Chaidez ("Heroes," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"), "Jane Whitefield...
- 11/13/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: The CW has put in development Jane Whitefield, a drama project based on the Vanishing Act book series by Thomas Perry. Produced by CSI maiden Carol Mendelsohn and written by Natalie Chaidez, Jane Whitefield centers on a quirky young woman in search of her biological parents and her own identity who runs a private investigation/”eraser” company in Portland. CBS TV Studios and studio-based Mendelsohn Prods. produce, with Mendelsohn, Chaidez, Perry, Bob Wunsch and Carol Mendelsohn Prods.’ Julie Weitz exec producing. Perry’s critically praised Jane Whitefield book series includes Vanishing Act, Dance For The Dead, Shadow Woman, The Face Changers, Blood Money, Runner, and Poison Flower. UTA-repped Natalie Chaidez has worked on Heroes, V, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and In Plain Sight. In addition to Jane Whitefield, Carol Mendelsohn Prods. has Second Sight at CBS, a drama based on the 2000 British series starring Clive Owen, with Michael Cuesta co-writing,...
- 11/13/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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