The Tracking Board’s Daily Debrief (08.26.16)

Magnet Management And Conde Nast Secure Rights To Lou Pearlman New Yorker Article With Plans For Series (EXCLUSIVE)

Magnet Management and Condé Nast have secured the rights to an article published in The New Yorker this week, “We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created” by John Seabrook with plans
to develop the story into a limited series.

Girl Meets World Scribe Penning Female-Centric Christmas Carol Feature (EXCLUSIVE)

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a universal tale, making it ripe for adaptations, parodies, and many different interpretations. The most recent one is Scroogette, which brings the story into modern day and re-imagines the protagonist.

Why Southside With You Reinvents The Presidential Biopic

Richard Tanne’s feature directorial debut, Southside With You, takes a new approach to the run-of-the-mill presidential biopic by making it more rom-com and less presidential with a story about Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date — a storytelling approach that changes the way we think about the presidential biopic.

More News From Around The Web

• Once Upon a Time has cast Faran Tahir as the famed Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Dallas and Warehouse 13 alum is set to play the hardened leader of the Nautilus submarine. (Entertainment Weekly)

• Guy Burnet has been tapped for Season 3 of Showtime drama series The Affair in the recurring role of Mike Cornwall, a graduate student and campus Lothario, who crosses paths with Dominic West’s Noah Solloway. (Deadline)

• Husband and wife duo of Salim and Mara Brock Akil have scored a pilot production commitment from ABC for a half-hour, multi-camera comedy Documenting Love. The duo previously created the BET shows The Game and Being Mary Jane before moving to Warner Bros. Television. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Following his leading turn in The Musketeers series on BBC, Luke Pasqualino has scored the lead role in the upcoming Snatch TV series  in development at Sony’s streaming network Crackle. (Dark Horizons)

• Matt Cohen, who played Young John Winchester on the aforementioned CW series Supernatural, will play a recurring role in season 2 of the CBS drama Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. He will play Jack Garrett’s son Ryan, an IRU team leader. (TV Line)

• Larenz Tate has been set to topline Nick Wernham-directed Business Ethics, an indie dark comedy based on Wernham’s short film of the same name about a man who sets out to run a Ponzi scheme. (Deadline)

• Karenna Gore and former Obama Administration advisor Barry Johnson are executive producing a movie based on Jarid Manos’ memoir Ghetto Plainsman. Jordan Walker-Pearlman is directing from a script he co-wrote with Carlton Jordan and Manos, along with Elizabeth Hunter. (Variety)