Feature Producer Basil Iwanyk Sets Up TV Series Projects At NBC, TNT & The CW

EXCLUSIVE: Feature producer Basil Iwanyk, whose resume includes The Clash Of The Titans and The Expendables franchises and The Town, is making a push in series television with three drama sales to NBC, TNT and the CW for projects written by Josh Parkinson (Eastbound & Down), James D. Parriott (Covert Affairs), and Eoghan O’Donnell (Teen Wolf), respectively. The NBC project hails from Sony TV, where Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Television recently had a deal. Iwanyk is executive producing all three projects with Thunder Road’s SVP Film & TV Kent Kubena, who oversees TV development. “We could not be more excited about the caliber of writers and material we’ve set up this season, as well as our upcoming development projects in the pipeline,” Iwanyk said.

Crime family drama By The Horns at NBC, written/exec produced by Parkinson, centers on a member of a notorious south Texas crime syndicate who decides to attempt a takeover of the whole organization when he learns the 14-year-old son of the newly named boss is actually his. Cataclysm drama Six at TNT, written/exec produced by Parriott, chronicles the aftermath of a Category 6 tornado that obliterates the majority of a small Kansas town and unearths years of horrific secrets. In sci-fi drama The Messengers at the CW, when a mysterious object crashes down to earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse — but then awaken again as angels of the coming Apocalypse. CBS TV Studios is producing, with O’Donnell writing/exec producing, The Good Wife EP Ted Humphrey supervising the script and also exec producing alongside Industry Entertainment’s Ava Jamshidi.

Thunder Road’s upcoming features include Seventh Son, John Wick and Gods Of Egypt. Thunder Road TV recently signed with CAA and is also repped by attorney PJ Shapiro. Parriott is repped by CAA; Parkinson is with CAA and the Gotham Group; O’Donnell is with ICM Partners, where Iwanyk was previously repped, and Industry Entertainment. Humphrey is with WME and Industry.