Approached by MGM Television and Skydance Television for a television adaptation of Sydney Pollack’s classic thriller Three Days of the Condor, Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg initially were reluctant to do so, finding the notion of adapting the film sacrilegious. But looking at the film more closely, the producers…
Though inspired by Paramount’s 1975 Sydney Pollack spy thriller Three Days of the Condor, AT&T Audience network’s Condor remains relevant, because political paranoia is alive and kicking, exec producers found themselves explaining to TV critics in Pasadena.
Condor follows a young CIA analyst who stumbles onto a plan…
EXCLUSIVE: Landscape Entertainment CEO Bob Cooper has hired producer Tyler Mitchell to be his head of feature films. Mitchell is one of the producers of Burt Wonderstone, the Don Scardino-directed New Line comedy that has Steve Carell set to star and Jim Carrey in talks to play rival Las Vegas magicians. He’s also a…
Back in June, Deadline revealed that Fox 2000 had acquired the Robert Harris thriller novel Fear Index, about a scientist who uses a revolutionary system of computer algorithms to trade on the volatility of the world's financial markets. His hedge fund is wildly successful until he is targeted by an intruder who…
EXCLUSIVE:Showtime is getting groovy with a drama project about the 1970s music industry. The pay cable network has bought Vinyl, a spec script written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas on board to executive produce and Barry Levinson attached to direct, subject to availability…
Warner Bros has picked up a period thriller pitch from Lucky Number Slevin scribe Jason Smilovic titled The Architect, taking the project off the table. Smilovich, who created and executive produced the TV series My Own Worst Enemy, Karen Sisco, Kidnapped and Bionic Woman, will produce the thriller with Elaine…
EXCLUSIVE: Sometimes, the hottest projects in town aren't the newest. Warner Bros is in early talks with Ben Affleck to come aboard to direct and possibly star in Replay, a Jason Smilovic-scripted adaptation of a Ken Grimwood novel. The protagonist is a 43-year old radio journalist who dies, wakes up in his 18-year…
Writer Jason Smilovic has set up a drama project at Fox. The project, titled The Detail, landed a script commitment with penalty after interest from multiple networks. It is executive produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, with Michael Dinner on board to direct. Produced by Sony TV, it is described as Ocean's Eleven…
