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Redshirts
Network: FX
Production Company: In Cahoots Productions
Executive Producers: Ken Kwapis, Alex Beattie, Jonathan Shestack
Writer: John Scalzi
Director: Ken Kwapis
Logline: Set in the 25th century, five new recruits on the Starship Intrepid come to realize that the ship’s crew members are dying at an alarming rate. Their investigation leads to the mind-bending discovery that a science fiction television show, produced in the early 21st century, has somehow "intruded" upon their reality and "warped" it. In other words, the lives of the crew are following the course of a television narrative over which they have no control.
Details: Planned as a limited series and based on the Hugo award-winning novel,
Redshirts, written by John Scalzi.
Preacher
Network: AMC
Studio: Sony Pictures Television
Production Companies: Point Grey Pictures, Original Film
Executive Producers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Sam Catlin, Neal Moritz, Vivian Cannon, Ori Marmur, Ken Levin, Jason Netter
Writers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Logline: Reverend Jesse Custer, a tough Texas preacher who has lost his faith, has learned that God has left Heaven and abandoned His responsibilities. He finds himself the only person capable of tracking God down, demanding answers, and making Him answer for His dereliction of duty. Accompanying Jesse on his journey is his former girlfriend and a friendly vampire who seems to prefer a pint in the pub to the blood of the innocent. On his tail is an immortal, unstoppable killing machine named the Saint of Killers – a western lone gunman archetype whose sole purpose is to hunt and kill Jesse.
Details: Based on the comic book series,
Preacher, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Steve Dillon
DMZ
Network: Syfy
Studio: Warner Horizon Television
Production Companies: Heyday Films, Slim Chance Productions
Executive Producers: Andrew Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, David Heyman, Jeffrey Clifford
Writers: Andrew Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton
Logline: Centers on a young man trapped in Manhattan, which has been turned into a demilitarized zone (DMZ) after a second American civil war.
Details: Based on the comic book series "DMZ," created by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchieli
Legends
Network: Comedy Central
Studio: Bento Box Entertainment
Executive Producers: Brad Ableson, Mike Clements, Michael Starrbury, Scott Greenberg, Mark McJimsey, Joel Kuwahara
Writer: Michael Starrbury
Cast: Quinn Hawkins, Josiah Johnson
Logline: A trio of high school basketball players are legends in their own minds – and really, nowhere else.
Details: This is an animated comedy project.
SSN Insight: Bento Box Entertainment is also behind Comedy Central’s
Brickleberry, as well as
The Awesomes on Hulu, and
Bob’s Burgers on Fox.
A Teacher
Network: HBO
Production Company: COTA Films
Executive Producers: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Michael Costigan, Hannah Fidell, Daniel Brocklehurst
Writers: Hannah Fidell, Daniel Brocklehurst
Director: Hannah Fidell
Logline: A high school teacher in her late 20′s has a torrid affair with one of her students.
Details: The project is an adaptation of the film,
A Teacher, (USA/2013), directed by Hannah Fidell and starring Lindsay Burdge.
SSN Insight: The Duplass brothers are also in production on the HBO series
Togetherness.
Bombingham
Network: AMC
Production Company: Kapital Entertainment
Executive Producers: Alex Woo, Aaron Kaplan
Writer: Alex Woo
Logline: Revolving around a 1963 murder in Birmingham, Ala., that reverberates in the present day, the story will shift time frames between past and present to reveal a murder that is discovered 50 years later and threatens to upend the fragile peace in the city between whites and African-Americans.
SSN Insight: Woo is also developing and writing two projects for HBO;
Headhunters and
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
