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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Brandt, whose screenwriting credits include co-writing Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and 2 Fast 2 Furious with Derek Haas and who is co-creator of NBC’s Chicago Fire and its spinoffs, has sold his untitled supernatural thriller pitch to 20th Century Fox. Shawn Levy’s studio-based 21 Laps is aboard to produce…

EXCLUSIVE: There are changes in the upper ranks of two Chicago series. Chicago Fire co-creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Michael Brandt is leaving, along with the series’ executive producer/director Joe Chappelle. Over at Chicago P.D., departing is executive producer/director Mark Tinker. That follows the…

Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, whose Chicago Fire pilot script helped launch a big drama franchise for NBC, have closed a new multi-year show deal with Universal Television, the studio behind the Chicago series, which are spearheaded by Dick Wolf. Under the deal, Brandt and Haas will continue to executive produce Chica…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and producer Scott Stuber have optioned the Derek Haas spy thriller novel The Right Hand. Haas and his right hand man, screenwriting partner Michael Brandt, are set to adapt the book as a feature, and they will produce with Stuber. The book was chased by multiple producers and financiers…

EXCLUSIVE: A pre-Cannes domestic distribution deal was closed last night by Image Entertainment for The Double, the Hyde Park/Imagenation thriller that marked the directing debut of Michael Brandt. Brand wrote the script with Derek Haas, his writing partner on such films as Wanted and 3:10 To Yuma. The film was…

Watchmen's Jeffrey Dean Morgan has committed to star in the title of The Courier, an action film directed by Paradise Now helmer Hany Abu-Assad. Production is set to start next month in New Orleans. Arclight Films is financing. Morgan will also be executive producer. Script's by 3:10 to Yuma team Derek Haas and Michael…