Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Saturday Night Special, a police drama from Black List writer Robert Specland (Nyad), producer Marc Platt and 20th Century Fox TV, where Platt’s Marc Platt Productions has a deal.
Written by Specland, Saturday Night Special is a grounded police soap exploring a tight-knit group of Washington D.C. cops with focus on the wildest, most dangerous shift of the week, giving us an in-depth look at the police force from the top down, Lieutenant to rookies, and how a job like this affects each of their lives, and their lives affect the job.
Specland executive produces with Platt and Adam Siegel via Platt’s Marc Platt Productions. 20th Century Fox TV co-produces with Marc Platt Productions.
Specland penned the 2015 Black List script Nyad about the famed swimmer Diana Nyad, and also The Impossible War,...
Written by Specland, Saturday Night Special is a grounded police soap exploring a tight-knit group of Washington D.C. cops with focus on the wildest, most dangerous shift of the week, giving us an in-depth look at the police force from the top down, Lieutenant to rookies, and how a job like this affects each of their lives, and their lives affect the job.
Specland executive produces with Platt and Adam Siegel via Platt’s Marc Platt Productions. 20th Century Fox TV co-produces with Marc Platt Productions.
Specland penned the 2015 Black List script Nyad about the famed swimmer Diana Nyad, and also The Impossible War,...
- 10/11/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox is adding another cop drama to its development roster.
The network has given a script commitment with penalty to Saturday Night Special, a project about police officers in Washington. It comes from writer Robert Specland, who will executive produce with Marc Platt (La La Land, Fox's Grease Live and upcoming Rent Live) and Adam Siegel.
The project is set up at 20th Century TV and Platt's eponymous production company.
Saturday Night Special is described as a grounded police soap that follows a group of tight-knit D.C. officers as they work Saturday nights, the wildest, most dangerous shift of the ...
The network has given a script commitment with penalty to Saturday Night Special, a project about police officers in Washington. It comes from writer Robert Specland, who will executive produce with Marc Platt (La La Land, Fox's Grease Live and upcoming Rent Live) and Adam Siegel.
The project is set up at 20th Century TV and Platt's eponymous production company.
Saturday Night Special is described as a grounded police soap that follows a group of tight-knit D.C. officers as they work Saturday nights, the wildest, most dangerous shift of the ...
- 10/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Robert Specland, the Black List scribe who has just come aboard to pen the Ufc origin film Gracie, has been hired to write Reincarnation Type, a thriller in the works from Bad Robot and Bristol Automotive. The logline is under wraps, but the producers’ research on reincarnation inspired a character-based thriller in the vein of The Sixth Sense. Specland’s take on the material sparked the deal.
Specland penned the 2015 Black List script Nyad about the famed swimmer Diana Nyad, and then The Impossible War, about Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin’s race against the clock and each other to find a polio cure. The latter pic is in the works with Black Bear Pictures financing and producing with Pacific View Management & Production.
Gracie, a drama that will tell the story of how the Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Rorion Gracie co-founded the Ufc as a way to give traction to a new martial arts form,...
Specland penned the 2015 Black List script Nyad about the famed swimmer Diana Nyad, and then The Impossible War, about Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin’s race against the clock and each other to find a polio cure. The latter pic is in the works with Black Bear Pictures financing and producing with Pacific View Management & Production.
Gracie, a drama that will tell the story of how the Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Rorion Gracie co-founded the Ufc as a way to give traction to a new martial arts form,...
- 7/13/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mandalay Sports Media through its Img joint venture has set a feature film about the formation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Robert Specland will write Gracie, a drama that will tell the story of how the Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Rorion Gracie co-founded the Ufc as a way to give traction to a new martial arts form. The film will be produced by Msm’s Mike Tollin and Mason Gordon, and Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray.
The film has funding through Msm’s co-fi deal with Img, which comes under the Endeavor umbrella that owns Ufc. Taught jiu-jitsu in Brazil by his father Helio — who pioneered the Brazilian style — Rorion Gracie came to the U.S. hoping to elevate the popularity of a self-defense system designed so that smaller men and women could use leverage to defend themselves and prevail over much larger opponents. Rorion became one of the martial...
The film has funding through Msm’s co-fi deal with Img, which comes under the Endeavor umbrella that owns Ufc. Taught jiu-jitsu in Brazil by his father Helio — who pioneered the Brazilian style — Rorion Gracie came to the U.S. hoping to elevate the popularity of a self-defense system designed so that smaller men and women could use leverage to defend themselves and prevail over much larger opponents. Rorion became one of the martial...
- 6/18/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After getting a Best Picture nomination for a movie about the race to crack the Enigma Code, The Imitation Game producer Black Bear Pictures will now make a film about the race to cure the polio epidemic in the ’50s. Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear won an auction and will pay mid-six figures to team with Pacific View Management & Production to produce and fully finance The Impossible War, a spec script by Robert Specland. It’s the true story of Jonas Salk and Albe…...
- 2/7/2017
- Deadline
Fox has put in development a legal drama from producer Neal Baer and up-and-coming writer Robert Specland. 20th Century Fox TV, where Baer has a pod deal, is the studio. Written by Specland based on an idea he developed with Baer, the untitled Verdict project is set in the San Francisco Bay Area. It centers on two attorneys from opposite upbringings facing off on opposite sides of the courtroom, and a young woman between them — an ex-con who joins the law firm in the…...
- 10/19/2016
- Deadline TV
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