A drama project toplined by Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint, from Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta and Life In Pieces and Secrets & Lies producer Aaron Kaplan, has landed at NBC with a put pilot commitment.
Written by Horta inspired by an idea by Kaplan, the untitled drama was developed for Grint, a big comic book fan. The British actor would star as Rupert, a low-level New York office drone obsessed with Imperial City, a comic book series his father created before his death. Rupert has spent his whole life believing he owned all nine issues. But when a mysterious comic book collector reveals the existence of a tenth issue, Rupert discovers that the world of Imperial City is real, and he is the one person who can save it.
Warner Bros. TV, where Horta is under an overall deal, is the studio, producing with Horta’s Silent H Productions and Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Horta and Kaplan will executive produce, with Grint serving as producer. Horta’s producing partner at Silent H, Andrew Maher, is expected to serve in some producing capacity.
For Horta, the Rupert Grint project joins another drama, The Divine Monster, he has in the works at Fox with Brett Ratner.
This marks the latest put pil
ot commitment for Kapital Entertainment this season, joining Liz Feldman’s multi-camera comedy Hello Again at CBS, darkly comedic one-hour House Of Moore at ABC with Felicity Huffman attached to produce and possibly star, single-camera comedy Sugarland at Fox and drama Monstropolis at ABC.
On American TV, Grint previously starred in the CBS comedy pilot Super Clyde. He is repped by Gersh, Hamilton Hodell, Management 360 and attorney Warren Dern.
This is a great idea for NBC. Get the family audience!
By great you mean awful, no?
Thank you ‘Supergirl’ and market-driven decisions….
Didn’t Heroes Reborn teach you nothing, NBC….????????/
Interesting. Grint is actually a decent actor, far better than the other members of the Potter trio, if given the right material. Only time will tell if this project qualifies.
I have always thought the same thing. Emma and Daniel grew into the craft, but I always thought Rupert was the natural from early on. I never understood why the critics were so hard on him. Oddly you are the first I’ve encountered to somewhat agree.
I love Rupert Grint. He is a wonderful actor and should enjoy the spotlight equally as his co-actors. I am looking forward to seeing the series.
Sounds great. It’s all in the execution.
This sounds to me like “The Unwritten”
My thoughts exactly.
Super Clyde was amazing. That should have been the series put on TV.
I think people are under estimating the fans of Harry Potter. Even if it’s terrible people would at least tune in for a good season as it picks up momentum. Also with the other prime time networks having successful Comic central shows (Supergirls still up in the air but it opened fine I think) NBC needs to compete. The content would see if it would have a second season.