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Los Angeles and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of the Oscar Best Picture winner CODA, has set its new drama feature Ibelin, based on the real-life story of the disabled British gamer Mats Steen, who went by the name of “Ibelin” in the gaming world. Morten Tyldum, who was Oscar-nominated in…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is moving past The Last Police. Deadline understands that the network has passed on the Kyle Killen pilot. Based on Ben Winters' sci-fi mystery novel The Last Policeman, the network ordered the pilot in July. It was written, directed and exec produced by the Lone Star and Awake creator via his Chapter…

EXCLUSIVE: The Last Police, an adaptation of Ben Winters’ sci-fi mystery novel The Last Policeman, has received a pilot order at Fox. It marks the first pilot order from the network of the 2021/22 development season. Deadline noted that the project was zeroing in on a pilot order in our latest Pilot 2021 Buzz…

Fox Entertainment has signed another established TV showrunner to a direct talent deal. The broadcast network has inked a direct, exclusive, broadcast-only talent deal with writer/producer Kyle Killen (Halo, Awake). Under the pact, Killen will develop scripted series for the Fox network. The projects will be developed…

2ND UPDATE, June 21: Oscar-nominated Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy has responded to WGA West executive director David Young in what has become a meaningful discussion of the main issues stemming from the current standoff between the guild and the Association of Talent Agents. Nagy wrote the original June 17 letter…

When asked if Showtime’s TV adaptation of the Xbox video game franchise Halo will be the pay cabler’s Game of Thrones, network president of programming Gary Levine asserted, “It will be our Halo.” The series, which is being prepped for a 2020 telecast, centers on the epic 26th century conflict between humanity and an…

Showtime has given a 10-episode series order to Halo (working title), an hourlong live-action scripted drama based on the award-winning Xbox video game franchise, from Awake creator Kyle Killen, Rise of the Planet of the Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television. Killen serves as writer…

Nola Hart, an hourlong project from Samantha Who? co-creator Don Todd, has sold to ABC with penalty. The project, which Todd executive produces with Kyle Killen, hails from 20th Century Fox TV, where Todd is under an overall deal. Nola Hart extends the duo’s collaboration; last season, Todd worked on Killen’s Mind Gam…

Paramount Television, in tandem with Anonymous Content, has signed a two-year, first-look deal with Kyle Killen, creator of Lone Star, Awake and Mind Games, and his recently launched company Chapter Eleven. The pact stems from a three-year first-look deal Paramount TV inked in May with True Detective producer…

TV critics love deeply flawed guys on cable dramas. On broadcast, maybe not so much? Christian Slater and Steve Zahn play brothers — a con man just out of prison, and a brilliant bipolar expert in the field of human behavior, respectively — who form a problem-solving firm that uses psychological manipulation. One TV…

Lone Star and Awake creator Kyle Killen has received a pilot order by ABC for his latest drama project, Influence. The network also has given the green light to Killer Women, a soupy procedural written by Hannah Shakespeare and produced by Modern Family star Sofia Vergara, Ben Silverman and director Martin…

Ed Brubaker is suddenly very busy. The graphic novel writer and the scribe who has written for several superhero comics including Captain America, Batman and X-Men, has sold a pair of projects to broadcast networks that he will write and executive produce. The first is Rising Suns, from 20th Century Fox TV and…