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Deadline caught up with actress Joey King at the premiere of the David Leitch’s new action-thriller Bullet Train. When asked about working on Netflix’s Uglies on the red carpet, King stated, “It was very exciting for me. The Uglies books meant a lot to me as a kid.” She continues, “Being able to…

McG, who has been busy producing movies for Netflix, returned to broadcast television this season with three pilots on three different networks for his Wonderland Sound and Vision banner, True Lies, based on James Cameron’s 1994 movie, on CBS; Not Dead Yet starring Gina Rodriguez on ABC; and the Jensen Ackles-produced…

Former Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is returning to broadcast television as the lead in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Not Dead Yet from The Real O'Neals creators Casey Johnson and David Windsor, McG and 20th Television. In the project, based on Alexandra Potter’s Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up…

It's a busy morning of pilot pickups at ABC. The network has ordered a pilot for single-camera comedy Not Dead Yet, which comes from The Real O'Neals creators Casey Johnson and David Windsor with McG exec producing. The project is based on Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter, which was…

EXCLUSIVE: Cop Out writer Robb Cullen is working on a dark comedy drama inspired by his own life for BET+. The streamer has teamed with Cullen and McG on Average Joe. The project, which has received a cast contingent script-to-series order, is a darkly comedic, one-hour ensemble set in The Hill district of…

EXCLUSIVE: The material marketplace is beginning to perk up. Deadline hears that Wonderland has Annie Mumolo (Bridesmaids, Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar) and Emily Goldwyn (Emily in Paris, SMILF) co-writing Bad Habit, a proposed comedy series that would star Mumolo about nuns who get into the pot-selling…

EXCLUSIVE: Laverne Cox (Promising Young Woman, Orange Is the New Black) is the latest addition to the cast of Uglies, the dystopian fantasy film based on Scott Westerfeld’s international bestseller of the same name, which McG is directing for Netflix. She joins a cast led by Joey King, which also includes Keith…

EXCLUSIVE: Keith Powers (The Tomorrow War), Brianne Tju (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Chase Stokes (Outer Banks) have signed on to star opposite Joey King in Uglies, a dystopian fantasy film based on Scott Westerfeld's international bestseller of the same name, which McG is directing for Netflix. Uglies is set…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed the comedy spec The Tradition with McG producing through his Wonderland Sound and Vision banner. Nico Godinez Miller and Grant Mellon penned the script, which pulls from their different cultural backgrounds. Mary Viola will join McG as a producer. The film is a romantic comedy that…

EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Haddish is set to star in Mystery Girl, the Netflix feature adaptation based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name that was created by Paul Tobin and Alberto Alburquerque. Haddish, under her She Ready Productions label, will produce the film, which is being directed by McG (The Babysitter). Mike…

True Lies, a TV series adaptation of James Cameron's hit 1994 action comedy movie, has taken a major step toward becoming a reality. CBS has given a pilot order to the project, from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix, McG and Cameron. 20th Television is the studio. The True Lies pilot was written by Nix and will be directed…

McG has officially signed up to direct the pilot episode of Turner & Hooch, Disney+'s reboot of the classic 1989 buddy-cop comedy feature. The TV series, which has a 12-episode order, comes from Matt Nix and 20th TV. McG also will serve as an executive producer on the series, which is now in production. Like the…