Noir
Steven Lightfoot has been replaced by "Suits" Ep Sean Jablonski as executive producer/showrunner on Starz’s upcoming action drama series "Noir".
A live-action adaptation of the 2001 Japanese anime series, the story follows two female assassins who vow to fight a secret society and also try to work together to determine why and how they're mysteriously linked.
Sam Raimi, Bob Tapert, Joshua Donen and Bill Hamm are also serving as executive producer. [Source: Deadline]
Swamplandia
HBO has picked up a half-hour comedy series pilot adaptation of Karen Russell's novel "Swamplandia".
The story revolves around Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida as she searches for her lost sister.
Scott Rudin will executive produce and a writer is currently being sought. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
A Fan’s Notes
Producer Gary Pearl is putting together a cable TV series based on Frederick Exley,...
Steven Lightfoot has been replaced by "Suits" Ep Sean Jablonski as executive producer/showrunner on Starz’s upcoming action drama series "Noir".
A live-action adaptation of the 2001 Japanese anime series, the story follows two female assassins who vow to fight a secret society and also try to work together to determine why and how they're mysteriously linked.
Sam Raimi, Bob Tapert, Joshua Donen and Bill Hamm are also serving as executive producer. [Source: Deadline]
Swamplandia
HBO has picked up a half-hour comedy series pilot adaptation of Karen Russell's novel "Swamplandia".
The story revolves around Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida as she searches for her lost sister.
Scott Rudin will executive produce and a writer is currently being sought. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
A Fan’s Notes
Producer Gary Pearl is putting together a cable TV series based on Frederick Exley,...
- 10/20/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Producer Gary Pearl is putting together a TV series project based on Frederick Exley Jr’s semi-autobiographical novel A Fan’s Notes. The 1968 book deals with alcoholism, shock therapy and sports fandom and chronicles a man’s life lived in abject failure while seeking fame and driving himself and all those around him down a path of destruction. “It’s a brilliantly written parable, a diary for our time about self-destruction in pursuit of personal celebrity and ultimate fame, the kind that lasts beyond one’s lifetime,” said Pearl, who is producing with Jeffrey Shane and David Burton Morris. It took Pearl several years to track down and secure the rights to the book, and the he spent time trying to make it into a feature film before deciding that a series adaptation would work better, something to which Exley’s twin sister Francis Brown agreed. (A Fan’s Notes...
- 10/20/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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