Logline: The story centers around Tanya Dearborn, a serial killer who takes the identities of attractive women to seduce and kill rich men, and Detective, Catherine Hobbs’ attempt to tack her before he next kill.
Alex Kurtzman
Dear Hollywood,
ARE YOU READY FOR THE ENDER’S GAME?
Signed,
Hood, Kurtzman, Orci, Pritzker, Card
CBS orders pilots for a copper and a laugher, Fox adds two more laughers to their order, and one tentpole-type actioner, while MTV adds some summer camp fun, NBC opens their wallets and greenlights four new pilots with some very familiar names, and TBS smashes two John Cusack films for one new series!
ABC buys 2, orders more of 4, and kills 1, CBS does 1 and 1, ABC Family greenlights 1, Comedy Central, FX and Starz each order something new, while NBC takes on 2 new series, FOX greenlights 1 and orders more of another, and hands out a deal for 2 more. (aka: a LOT OF TV NEWS TODAY!)
Smilovic sets up “The Detail,” Fox commits to a new Guggenheim procedural, and JJ Abrams gets two projects picked up!
LOCKE & KEY has gone through almost every media platform before finding a home that has not only bought it (third sale) but has confirmed to shoot it.
As we reported a little over a week ago, the project, based on the Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son) graphic novel, was originally set up as a film. After busy schedules, and a sluggish move through development, the team decided on a new outlook, with producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman went for some heavies, bringing on Steven Spielberg to produce alongside them, and Josh Friedman to pen a TV pilot. And, lets be honest, any TV project with those 5 names on it, is already on a level echelons above any other spec pilot.
And that is precisely what Fox thought, snatching up the pilot today, with a commitment to shoot the pilot, and a hefty penalty if the series does not air.
So, ratchet the number of Steven Spileberg TV shows on Fox in 2011 to two, with LOCKE & KEY joining TERRA NOVA.
Logline: Follows a struggling twentysomething man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son. Determined to keep the money to solve his own problems, he’s nonetheless fascinated by his unknown kin and makes contact with the two without revealing who he really is.
Logline: Explores the love affairs and friendships among a close circle of friends over two decades.
Logline: Western settlers, including a former Union Army gunslinger named Zeke Jackson, and Apache Indians, who clash with the people they see as invading their land, are both shocked when a spaceship crashes into the prairie near Silver City, Arizona. The aliens attempt to conquer the humans with their advanced technology, and the Earthlings must join forces in order to survive.
Logline: After the gruesome murder of their father, three siblings move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts. They soon discover the house has magical keys that give the bearers a vast array of powers and abilities.
Logline: Story follows a crack FBI squad in a game of cat-and-mouse against a super-team of the world’s greatest illusionists, who pull off a series of daring bank heists during their performances, showering the profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but said to be in the vein of “The Shining” that takes place in the Denver Airport.
Logline: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers’ final battle.
Logline: Story follows three young racers as they compete in the World Karting Association’s National Pavement Series.
Logline: A group of online teenage video gamers must come together to save the world from a real threat.
Logline: The vampire Lestat searches for a way to regain his lost humanity.
Logline: The adventures of repo-men reclaiming boats and planes from the wealthy.
Logline: Story follows the life and spy missions of helm – a former Army lieutenant recruited to scrap his “ordinary life” and become a secret agent for a U.S. intelligence unit.
Logline: A boy is trained to become an elite soldier, who is tasked with the job of saving the earth from an invading alien race, that has wiped out all remnants of humanity.
Logline: When the woman he loves is gunned down by drug lords, John Kelly begins to methodically murder his way through the drug ring.
Logline: Story centers on Spider-Man’s nemeses, Venom, a vigilante created by a sticky parasitic substance from space that gives him powers similar to Spider-Man.
Logline: During the chaotic summer season in high school, a hard-nosed teacher is aiming to be the next principal and one student tries to stop him from achieving that goal.
Logline: Story follows a group of dragonologists who are tasked with the job of keeping a corrupt man from taking control of the world’s dragons and using them to wipe out humanity.
