ABC has given a pilot order to drama Wreckage, about plane crash survivors, from writer Jacquie Walters (Big Shot), Marc Webb and his Black Lamb Productions, Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly’s Timberman-Beverly Prods., and ABC Studios, where Webb and Timberman-Beverly are under deals.
Written by Walters, Wreckage is based on Emily Bleeker’s book of the same name. On the surface, Lillian Linden looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost four years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story—so they lie.
Webb executive produces and will direct the pilot. Timberman and Beverly executive produce via Timberman-Beverly,...
Written by Walters, Wreckage is based on Emily Bleeker’s book of the same name. On the surface, Lillian Linden looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost four years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story—so they lie.
Webb executive produces and will direct the pilot. Timberman and Beverly executive produce via Timberman-Beverly,...
- 1/30/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC has ordered a drama pilot based on the book “Wreckage” by Emily Bleeker.
In the project, Lillian Linden looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash on the surface. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost four years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story, so they lie.
Jacquie Walters will adapt the book for the pilot and serve as co-executive producer. Marc Webb is attached to direct and executive produce under his Dark Lamb banner. Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly will also executive produce along with Mark Martin of Black Lamb and Keith Samples. Bleeker will serve as consultant. ABC Studios will produce.
In the project, Lillian Linden looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash on the surface. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost four years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story, so they lie.
Jacquie Walters will adapt the book for the pilot and serve as co-executive producer. Marc Webb is attached to direct and executive produce under his Dark Lamb banner. Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly will also executive produce along with Mark Martin of Black Lamb and Keith Samples. Bleeker will serve as consultant. ABC Studios will produce.
- 1/30/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
After winning an Academy Award for The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow is back with a docu-drama about Bin Laden. Here's what critics said after its first screening this weekend
Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's followup to 2009 Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker, centres on the Us Navy Seal unit that raided Osama bin Laden's compound in northern Pakistan last year.
The film was screened to Us critics in New York and La over the weekend – and early reactions suggest it could replicate the success of the director's last film.
The Hollywood Reporter said:
Whether you call it well informed speculative history, docu-drama recreation or very stripped-down suspense film-making, Zero Dark Thirty matches form and content to pretty terrific ends. A long-arc account of the search for Osama bin Laden seen from the perspective of an almost insanely focused female CIA officer who never gives up the hunt until the prey ends up in a body bag.
Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's followup to 2009 Oscar-winner The Hurt Locker, centres on the Us Navy Seal unit that raided Osama bin Laden's compound in northern Pakistan last year.
The film was screened to Us critics in New York and La over the weekend – and early reactions suggest it could replicate the success of the director's last film.
The Hollywood Reporter said:
Whether you call it well informed speculative history, docu-drama recreation or very stripped-down suspense film-making, Zero Dark Thirty matches form and content to pretty terrific ends. A long-arc account of the search for Osama bin Laden seen from the perspective of an almost insanely focused female CIA officer who never gives up the hunt until the prey ends up in a body bag.
- 11/26/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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