Killing Patton
Network: National Geographic Channel
Production Company(s): Ridley Scott Films
Executive Producer(s): Bill O’Reilly, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Mary Lisio
Writer(s): Tony Peckham
Logline: The story focuses on the death of the World War II general. It explores the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton’s suspicious demise, which may have been an assassination by any number of powerful individuals who wanted him silenced. Based on the book.
Details: Based on the book, “Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General,” written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard and published by Henry Holt and Company on September 23, 2014.
SSN Insight: NatGeo has ordered the project as a 4-hour miniseries.
My Friend 50
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company(s): Will Packer Productions, G-Unit Film & Television Inc.
Executive Producer(s): Will Packer, 50 Cent
Writer(s): Ava Tramer
Logline: Amanda Kramer is an unstable twenty-something who believes that joining 50 Cent’s entourage is the answer to all her problems. Her unlikely journey with 50 Cent’s crew takes the form of a bizarre documentary commissioned by the most unreliable narrator in history: Amanda.
SSN Insight: Fox has given an initial script commitment.
No Tomorrow
Network: CW Television Network
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Production Company(s): Electus
Executive Producer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ben Silverman, Sean Canino
Writer(s): Corinne Brinkerhoff, Scott McCabe, Tory Stanton
Logline: Sarah is a risk-averse quality-control assessor who falls for free-spirited thrill seeker Xavier, only to find out he lives his life that way because he believes the apocalypse is coming.
Details: Based on the Brazilian format, “How To Enjoy The End Of the World.”
SSN Insight: Brinkerhoff previously worked on The Good Wife and is the creator and executive producer of CBS’s recently picked-up American Gothic set to launch in summer of 2016.
Rambo: New Blood
Network: Fox Broadcasting Company
Production Company(s): Millennium Films, eOne Television
Executive Producer(s): Avi Lerner, John Morayniss, Sylvester Stallone, Jeb Stuart
Writer(s): Jeb Stuart
Logline: About a troubled Vietnam War veteran and former Green Beret who is skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand to hand combat and guerrilla warfare.
Details: Based on the novel, “First Blood,” written by David Morrell and published by Lippincott in 1972.
SSN Insight: Rambo rights owner Nu Image/Millenium Films and eOne originally joined forces to develop a Rambo TV series in 2013. Stuart just penned two miniseries projects for History, The Liberators and Boys of 67. It’s not confirmed whether Stallone will act in the series.
Tremors
Studio: Universal Cable Productions
Production Company(s): Blumhouse Productions
Executive Producer(s): Kevin Bacon
Writer(s): Andrew Miller
Logline: An adaptation of the film “Tremors” about a giant man eating worm.
Details: Based on the 1990 film “Tremors.”
SSN Insight: No network is attached yet, but per UCP, there are multiple bidders interested. Kevin Bacon is attached to star.
Trial
Network: Amazon
Studio: Amazon Studios
Production Company(s): No Production Company Available.
Executive Producer(s): David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro, Ross Fineman, David Semel
Writer(s): David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro
Logline: Having been expelled from his lucrative, respectable, even legendary career as an attorney under a very dark cloud, Billy spends most of his days getting drunk, with the occasional case tossed his way by his ex-wife, Julie, who works for the same high-powered, high profile firm he co-founded. When Billy becomes involved with a wrongful death case brought to him by a young lawyer, who’s just been punitively fired from his old firm, he finds himself up against a formidable opponent.
SSN Insight: Kevin Costner was previously in discussions to play the lead role, but opted not to proceed. Amazon has given a series order of ten episodes.
The Long Road Home
Network: National Geographic Channel
Executive Producer(s): Mike Medavoy, Jason Clark, Benjamin Anderson and Edward McGurn
Writer(s): Mikko Alanne
Logline: It will chronicle the events of April 4, 2004, a day that became known in military annals as “Black Sunday,” when a newly-arrived Platoon from the First Cavalry Division in Fort Hood, Texas, was ambushed in Sadr City in Baghdad.
Details: Based on Martha Raddatz’s bestselling novel, “The Long Road Home”.
SSN Insight: The adaptation will be a miniseries. Alanne previously scripted the film, The 33 starring Antonio Banderas.
Rattle
Production Company(s): Archery Pictures
Executive Producer(s): Liza Marshall and Kris Thykier
Logline: About a sinister bone collector who has a macabre obsession with his museum of medical oddities. Now it seems the time has come for a fresh harvest, and it’s down to Detective Etta Fitzroy to hunt down this psychopath before he can add to his collection.
Details: Based on the debut novel by former Daily Mirror showbiz reporter Fiona Cummins entitled “Rattle” published by Pan Macmillan.
SSN Insight: Archery Pictures, which launched last year, also is developing a 10-part series entitled Mafiya, penned by William Nicholson and picked up by ITV and The Weinstein Company.