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The WolfMan
Network: NBC
Studio: Universal Television
Production Company: Scott Stuber Productions
Executive Producer: Daniel Knauf, Quan Phung, Scott Stuber
Writer: Daniel Knauf
Logline: Centers on a man who is afflicted by an ancient curse and jacks into the powerful, primordial soul of the alpha-predator.
Details: Based on the 2010 feature
The Wolfman, produced by Scott Stuber and Universal Pictures, starring Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, which was a remake of the 1941 feature.
SSN Insight: Knauf is also developing an untitled project with Electus Entertainment about a women’s club, part of the 3-for-1 NBC deal that joins
Black Widow, already in development.
Nemesis
Network: NBC
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Company: Storyline Entertainment, Aperture Entertainment
Executive Producer: Benjamin Brand, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Adam Goldworm
Producer: Mark Nicholson
Writer: Benjamin Brand
Logline: The true story of Ness in 1935 as Cleveland’s newly appointed Director of Public Safety. Bodies have started turning up — each one decapitated and dissected with a doctor’s skill and a madman’s bent. The police are baffled and the population is terrorized over America’s first serial killer, the so-called "Torso Killer." While it’s not his turf, Ness is forced to take over the case; the more energy he pours into the investigation, the more it takes over and threatens to destroy his life.
Details: Based on the novel
Nemesis: The Final Case Of Eliot Ness, written by William Bernhardt. Planned as an eight-hour miniseries.
SSN Insight: Zadan and Meron are behind the upcoming miniseries
Bonnie & Clyde, which will air on the History Channel.
Mr. Romance
Network: HBO
Production Company: RipCord Productions
Executive Producer: Joshuah Bearman, Mike White, David Bernad
Writer: Murray Miller, Casper Christensen
Logline: Storyline is under wraps.
Details: Based on the article
The Only Muscle I Can’t Control: In Search Of The Next Romance Novel Cover Man, written by Joshuah Bearman.
SSN Insight: Miller has just closed a two year overall deal with HBO and will be upped to an executive producer on HBO’s
Girls this season.
Hannibal
Network: History
Studio: A&E Studios
Production Company: Red Arrow Entertainment Group
Executive Producer: Halle Berry, Jeffrey Caine, Steven Jensen, Vincent Cirrincione, Simon Maxwell
Writer: Jeffrey Caine
Logline: The story begins in Carthage, 264 BC, at the beginning of his life in North Africa and proceeds through the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. In what became legend, Hannibal and his archrival Scipio Africanus take a sacred vow to destroy the other and the nation he served. However, despite their fiercely opposed allegiances, the two are brought together and grow to respect each other as brothers.
Details: Planned as a miniseries.
SSN Insight: Red Arrow is also developing
Odyssey, which was picked up straight to pilot for NBC with Adam Armus, Kay Foster and Peter Horton.
Wisdom
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Executive Producer: Marcus Wiley, Julia Franz, Jonathan Abrams
Writer: Jonathan Abrams
Logline: A sprawling, sexy soap fraught with secrets, lies, and a huge mystery involving the Murdoch-like dynasty of the first family of Silicon Valley.
The Double Life of Emily Reed
Network: ABC
Studio: ABC Television Studios
Production Company: Temple Hill Entertainment
Executive Producer: David Weissman, David Diamond, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Larry Gilbert
Writer: David Weissman, David Diamond
Logline: Emily Reed is at a tipping point in her New Jersey, single mom life, when she wakes up the next day as a dazzling, successful (and childless), New York executive. Thus begins the double life of Emily Reed as she moves forward living each day twice.
SSN Insight: Temple Hill is also developing
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened for ABC with Christine Pietrosh and Jessica Goldstein and
Beta for ABC with Lindsay Devlin.
