Similar to what we shared last Spring, here are the updated PODS for the TV industry in 2021.
CAA is out with THE DIVIDE by Bill Mechanic, Christopher McQuarrie, Michael Colleary, & Mike Werb. Story details are being kept under wraps.
APA shops BOYS OF SUMMER by Bryan Schulz & Cornelius Uliano. A boy begins to suspect that a supernatural entity may be hunting the children.
Anonymous Content is shopping BOTTOMLESS by Teal Greyhavens & Nick Von Keller. A struggling family moves into an old hot springs resort in the woods.
Despite the mounting uncertainty as we head into July, the spec market looks to be catching its stride and continues to rise from previous months.
Anonymous Content is out with PAPER TIGER by Peter Huang. An Asian American boy turns to a life of crime and drugs.
Anonymous Content is out with ASKED by Selena Lane. After accepting her boyfriend’s proposal, Maya’s late parents contact her from the afterlife through Instagram and show her what life could have looked like with her first love.
Verve is out with VALOR by Andrew Rhymer & Jeff Chan. A twelve year old’s fantasy RPG character comes to life.
CAA is out with CEREBRAL by Dave Kalstein. A disgraced psychiatrist who used to cater to the world’s most intelligent minds is asked to help investigate a murder in a secluded government-operated Victorian mansion where nine of the smartest people in the world reside.
Logline: Story details are being kept under wraps but it’s described as BLACK MIRROR meets STRANGER THINGS.
The career of John Dean, White House counsel for Richard Nixon turned whistleblower, is examined.
A wealthy wife from the Hamptons is accused of murdering her husband after she has a fling with a bartender.
A broken detective retires to the French countryside, only to find himself embroiled in one more case, one that risks his sanity.
Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, races to make contact with the crew of the Aether spacecraft as they try to return home to Earth.
A musician leaves her hometown and sets out to become famous.
Chronicles the true story of Albert Woodfox who was sentenced to more than four decades of solitary confinement after being wrongly accused of murdering a prison guard.
An asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor: a woman who is trapped in her escape pod.
Chronicles a vacation by a group of girlfriends in their 60’s.
A 1980’s set mystery about the power of an arcade game and the effect it has on the kids of Portland.
A 1980’s set mystery about the power of an arcade game and the effect it has on the kids of Portland.
Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, but Matt won’t give in. Because Matt has discovered something: the hungrier he gets, the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see & hear things he shouldn’t be able to. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger…and he isn’t in control of all of them.
A teenage girl and her two brothers are shepherded by an emancipated expert huntswoman from Illinois to Alabama during the Civil War to rescue a sibling from a lawless confederate prison camp.
Two teenagers discover their recently-deceased father was actually a time traveler from the future, and using the clues he left behind, they must step through a portal and enter the secret world of licensed time travel, and complete their father’s mission before his enemies destroy the fabric of the universe.
The prolific author’s short story first appeared in last year’s fantasy collection The Book of Swords, along with stories by George RR Martin, Robin Hobb and Garth Nix.
Centers on the CIA’s extreme interrogation program on detainees following the 9/11 attacks.
Jennifer Morrison is also in talks for the drama from the writer of Contagion and The Bourne Ultimatum that looks at the CIA’s interrogation procedures post-9/11.
Based on the excellent book by Josh Bazell that was adapted by Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the story follows a young ER doctor whose life is upended when a patient recognizes him from his past life as a mafia hitman.
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (Syriana), production for the Universal release has already begun in London with Downey joined by Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Harry Collett and Jim Broadbent.
Based on the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and Henry V, this will be the third collaboration between Edgerton and Michơd since first teaming for 2010’s Animal Kingdom.