The true story of a vigilante crew that stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher for 110 days and across two seas and three oceans.
Todd Hoffman
Fox has boosted development to cover American Idol’s exit and fill nearly 40 hours or programming. So this year’s order of 11 pilots is up from last year’s 6. That said, Fox isn’t really looking to take risks. Let’s take a look at what’s in the works in our preview of Fox’s Drama Pilots.
The true story of the meteoric rise of Jimmy Cournoyer, a once unassuming French Canadian turned playboy who singlehandedly wove together a massive marijuana enterprise in New York City.
Thunder Road Pictures is developing a feature based on Alan Feuer’s New York Times article “The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Pot Dealer in New York City History.”
Logline: Based on a true story. Centers on Leo Sharp, an award winning horticulturist who secretly spent years working as one of the most trusted drug couriers for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel.
Logline: A young boy and his estranged father spend some time together while the boy’s mother and her new husband go to a religious retreat. When things start to go wrong, the boy and father realize they have more in common than they thought.
Logline: Tells the true story of Leo Sharp, a 90-year-old WWII veteran who was caught running drugs for the Sinaloa Cartel.
Logline: Centers on struggling American Samoan high school football programs that somehow produce a disproportionately high number of NFL players.
Logline: A University Of Michigan star football player’s dreams are destroyed after a shoulder injury, leading him to become the unlikely coach of an ammeter team in China, turning them into a championship team.
Logline: Based on the true story of a cyber security blogger who exposes a major crime involving hundreds of thousands of credit cards being stolen.
Logline: Best soldiers from all over the world competing in one arena.
Logline: Story of eight unlikely activists who break into an FBI office and find evidence confirming that J. Edgar Hoover was leading his own shadow bureau of investigation, in violation of the Constitution.
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Logline: Kept under wraps but said to be a traditional dragon-hunting plot with an original thread involving a fallen daughter of Odin.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “Three Kingsâ€, story tells the wild love story between two busy and travelling U.N. weapons inspectors.
Logline: Story follows the the formative years of the leader of the Huns, the man who brazenly attacked Rome and lay waste to much of Europe before dying under mysterious circumstances on his wedding night.
Logline: When the son of a military commander is stranded among the monstrous creatures that live in the city’s shadow, he discovers they are far more human than he was led to believe.
Logline: Pitched as “Knocked Up” meets “The Hangover.”
Logline: Centers around the author’s experience during the seven months he spent as a captive of the Taliban in Pakistan. He was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008 as they were to an interview with a Taliban commander outside of Kabul, Afghanistan.
