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EXCLUSIVE: Apple has signed an overall deal with Defending Jacob creator, executive producer and showrunner Mark Bomback. Under the multi-year pact, Bomback will develop new TV projects exclusively for Apple TV+. The overall deal comes a month after thriller Defending Jacob, starring Chris Evans, wrapped its…

Defending Jacob creator, executive producer and showrunner Mark Bomback appeared as part of Apple TV+’s session at Deadline’s Contenders Television livestream panel and revealed that his eight-hour limited-series adaptation of William Landay's novel was originally meant to be a two-hour movie instead of a longform TV…

Mark Bomback is a screenwriter who has been one of the go-to people in town, with credit or without, on some of the best-known franchises in recent years. His work includes scripts for both Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War of the Planet of the Apes, as well as uncredited work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Li…

Non-Spoiler Alert:  The creative team behind the AppleTV+ thriller series Defending Jacob say that reading William Landay's 2012 novel of the same name on which the series is based — or even just Googling the plot — will not spoil the enjoyment of the series. Of course, writer and executive producer Mark Bomback would…

Apple has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to drama Defending Jacob, headlined and executive produced byCaptain America and The Avengers star Chris Evans. Created and written by Mark Bomback (Planet of the Apes trilogy) based on William Landay’s bestselling novel, the limited series comes  from…

TWC-Dimension picked up rights to author Ira Levin's 1973 Broadway thriller Veronica’s Room in December, and now has tapped Mark Bomback to pen the adaptation. The original play from Rosemary’s Baby writer Levin centererd on two students who find themselves invited to a crumbling New England estate for an audience…

EXCLUSIVE: Right after 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment began screening his cut of Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Matt Reeves has signed on to direct the third installment of the franchise. This time, he will write the script with Mark Bomback, one of the writers who scripted the sequel. Amanda Silver and…

The clock has started on 24, the feature version of the Imagine Entertainment/Fox series. The project brings back Kiefer Sutherland’s tireless government operative Jack Bauer. Mark Bomback — a favorite writer at 20th Century Fox writing The Wolverine and Shadow Divers — is doing some last minute tweaking of Billy…

Dodgeball director Rawson Thurber is rewriting The Umbrella Academy for Universal Pictures, based on the 2008 Eisner Award-winning Dark Horse comic written by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way. Mark Bomback wrote the first draft. The comic revolves around an adopted dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre…

Bryan Singer is getting his green light on Jack the Giant Killer, and he's now figuring out who’ll climb the vine and slay the oversized villain. I'm told it has become the role that young actors are circling. I’ve also heard that Singer’s sweet on Aaron Johnson, who played the title role in Kick-Ass, and portrayed…

EXCLUSIVE: Former 24 exec producer and showrunner Howard Gordon is going for a trifecta this development season with a third major sale in the past week, this time to NBC. The network has given a put pilot commitment to drama Legends, which will be written by feature scribe Mark Bomback. Gordon is executive producing…