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are a lot of major filmmakers and talent deciding to focus on TV projects we
will see for the next few years. Ridley Scott and TNT are working to develop a
night of original science-fiction programming. Skydance, David S. Goyer and Josh
Friedman are going to adapt Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy for an unknown
network. Netflix and the Coen Brothers are doing a Western anthology series
called The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs that will premiere in 2018. Showtime has
enlisted Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to executive produce a drama called City on
a Hill that will be set in Boston in the early 1990s when corruption and racism
were common. Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way Productions banner are teaming
with the National Geographic to adapt Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff into a TV
series that will tackle one mission each season. Amazon and David O. Russell are
doing a 16-episode mafia crime series that will star Michael Shannon, Robert De
Niro and Julianne Moore. Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss next HBO
project will be Confederate, an alternate reality in which the southern states
did secede from the Union and still own slaves. Hulu is doing Castle Rock, which
will be set in the mythical Stephen King town. John Carpenter is developing two
series for NBC/Universal Cable Entertainment. And finally Samuel L. Jackson is
doing a TV series called Old Man that is being actively pitched to multiple
networks. The series would adapt Thomas Perry’s novel The Old Man. |
