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Gerard McMurray (The First Purge) will write and direct an adaptation of the comic book Black for Studio 8 and Warner Bros., Deadline has confirmed. The comic introduced in 2016 by Black Mask Studios hails from writers Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 and illustrators Jamal Igle and Khary Randolph, examining a world in…

FX is moving forward with its adaptation of The Spook Who Sat By the Door – ordering a pilot for the project. The project, which is exec produced by Lee Daniels, was written by Foundation and Raising Dion co-exec producer Leigh Dana Jackson and will be directed by The Twilight Zone and The First Purge director Gerard M…

EXCLUSIVE: The final season of Empire debuts tonight on Fox, but co-creator Lee Daniels is planning for the post-Lyons future with a new version of a seminal satire and thriller for FX. Having optioned Sam Greenlee's spy novel The Spook Who Sat By The Door in the summer of 2018 for a potential TV series, Lee Daniel's…

EXCLUSIVE: The hot pitch package Booker has been won at auction by Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Davis Entertainment aboard to produce, sources said. Deadline revealed the auction last night when it had five bids on the table for a John Wick-esque hard-boiled action film with an African American male lead. Derek Ko…

EXCLUSIVE: The hot pitch heading into the weekend is Booker, described as a John Wick-esque hard-boiled action film with an African American male lead. The pitch was just delivered and there are five offers on the table. The film will be written by Derek Kolstad, who wrote the first two John Wick films. The film will…

The First Purge filmmaker Gerard McMurray has boarded Michael B. Jordan's upcoming hitman tale The Silver Bear as writer and director. The Silver Bear reunites Jordan and McMurray who previously worked together on the 2013 critically acclaimed Sundance Grand Jury/Audience Award winning Fruitvale Station with the…

In telling the story of Universal’s The First Purge, which introduces the inauguration of the day when laws are unenforced and pent-up violence unleashed, director Gerard McMurray found inspiration in pulling from real-life events to underscore the film’s themes of abuse of power and resistance. “Right now we're…

EXCLUSIVE: Gerard McMurray, who made his feature directorial debut with the Netflix hazing drama, Burning Sands, which he also co-wrote, has joined WME’s talent roaster. Previously at CAA, McMurray was tapped to helm the fourth installment in The Purge franchise from Universal, Blumhouse Productions and Platinum…

EXCLUSIVE: Mo McRae (Fox’s Pitch), Joivan Wade (Doctor Who), Luna Lauren Velez (How To Get Away With Murder), Steve Harris (The Practice), Patch Darragh (Boardwalk Empire) and Mugga (Orange is the New Black) have been cast in the fourth installment of The Purge film series from Blumhouse, Universal and Platinum…

Gerard McMurray is set to direct the upcoming fourth installment in The Purge franchise from Universal, Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes. Franchise creator James DeMonaco, who has written and directed the previous three films, is on board to write the script for the next chapter, which is set to hit theaters…