ABC is developing a series based on the 1998 Will Smith film “Enemy of the State.” Smith however is not attached to the project in any capacity. Original producer Jerry Bruckheimer is back on board for the TV project and will serve as an executive producer. Budding scribe Morgan Foehl is writing the script for […]
Fox has given a formal pilot order to “Lucifer,” based on the DC Comics character. Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and Len Wiseman are attached to the hourlong drama as exec producers, with Wiseman set to direct the pilot. The project hailing from Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Aggressive Mediocrity and Warner Bros. TV follows Lucifer, the Lord of Hell, as he […]
Paramount Television is again reaching into the studio archives, announcing that it is partnering with Jerry Bruckheimer on a television adaptation of the 1980 Richard Gere-Lauren Hutton film “American Gigolo.” Bruckheimer, who was a producer on that crime drama centered around a superficial male escort in Los Angeles, will exec produce the project. Paul Schrader, […]
Paramount Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer have today signed a three-year first-look deal, Deadline reports. Among the projects now being targeted for production are a sequel to the 1986 Tony Scott hit Top Gun and a reboot of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. The Top Gun followup has been in the works for some time with […]
Starting in 1990 with an executive producer role on “The Ref,” Jerry Bruckheimer has delivered a slate of successful franchises and blockbuster one-offs for his partner Walt Disney Studios, including “Armageddon,” “Bad Boys,” and most recently the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series; however, a less-than-stellar 2013 has cast doubts on the producer’s dynamic with Disney, […]
American Horror Story vet Dylan McDermott has landed the co-lead opposite Toni Collette in Hostages, CBS’ Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama pilot. Based upon the Israeli format, the project centers on a family (led by Collette’s matriarch) caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy. McDermott will play Duncan, a righteous FBI agent at the center […]
Jerry Bruckheimer has stepped in as producer on the upcoming Beware the Night, Variety reports. Scott Derrickson is still attached to helm with Eric Bana in talks to star and also recently rewrote the screenplay, based on Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool’s paranormal thriller. Published in 2001, the book is officially described as follows: […]