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‘Promised Land’: Michael Cuesta To Direct & Exec Produce ABC Drama Pilot
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cuesta (Homeland) has been tapped to direct and executive produce ABC's drama pilot Promised Land.
Written by Matt Lopez, Promised Land is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California's Sonoma Valley.
Cast includes John Ortiz as Joe Sandoval…
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Michael Cuesta To Direct ‘Frankenstein’ Fox Pilot
Michael Cuesta is set to direct Fox drama pilot Frankenstein, written and executive produced by Crisis and Life creator Rand Ravich and executive produced byHomeland and Tyrant executive producer Howard Gordon. This marks a reunion for Gordon and Cuesta, who also directed the pilot for Homeland and served as an…
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Michael Cuesta To Helm Black Label’s ‘Code Name Veil’
EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has set Michael Cuesta to direct Code Name Veil, the Matt Billingsly-scripted hot button drama. Cuesta just directed the Jeremy Renner-scripted Kill The Messenger and directed the pilot of Showtime’s Homeland and is an exec producer. This script, which made the Black List, sounds right in…
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Fox Buys Ghost Hunting Drama From ’24’ Producers With Penalty
Fox is looking to return to its X Files roots with a supernatural drama from 24 executive producers Evan Katz and Manny Coto, who recently served as executive producers and showrunner on the 24: Live Another Day event series for the network. Set to direct the 20th Century Fox TV-produced project, which has a penalty…
Hot Trailer: Jeremy Renner In ‘Kill The Messenger’
Here’s our first look at Jeremy Renner as Gary Webb, the real-life journalist who wound up on the business end of an ugly CIA smear campaign. The Pulitzer winner reported on the agency’s alleged involvement in launching America’s crack epidemic, reporting that it was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine…
Cult Drama ‘Babylon Fields’ Resurrected With Pilot Order At NBC, Michael Cuesta Inks Overall Deal With 20th Century Fox TV
EXCLUSIVE: Before AMC’s smash The Walking Dead, hit French series The Returned and ABC’s upcoming Resurrection, there was the 2007 CBS/20th Century Fox TV pilot Babylon Fields, from Michael Cuesta, Gerald Cuesta and Michael Atkinson, about a town’s residents coming back from the dead. Though it had a momentum, it…
Detective Drama From Michael Cuesta & Carol Mendelsohn Gets CBS Pilot Order
CBS has added one more pilot to its drama roster, greenlighting Second Sight, from Michael Cuesta, director/executive producer of the Emmy-winning Homeland and CSI executive producer/showrunner Carol Mendelsohn. Based on the 2000 British series starring Clive Owen, Second Sight is described as a gothic psychological…
‘Homeland’s Michael Cuesta & ‘CSI’s Carol Mendelsohn Sell Detective Drama To CBS
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Cuesta, director/executive producer of the Emmy-winning Homeland, has teamed with CSI executive producer/showrunner Carol Mendelsohn for Second Sight, a drama based on the 2000 British series starring Clive Owen. The project has been set up at CBS through CBS TV Studios, where Cuesta is under an over…
Michael Cuesta Signs Overall Deal With CBS Studios, Will Direct CBS Pilot 'Elementary'
EXCLUSIVE: Hot off directing the pilot for Showtime’s acclaimed new drama series Homeland, which he also executive produces, Michael Cuesta has signed an overall deal with CBS TV Studios. Under the seven-figure pact, which starts immediately and runs through June 1, 2013, Cuesta will direct and executive produce the…
Magnolia Pictures Acquires 'Roadie'
Magnolia Pictures has landed U.S. rights to the Michael Cuesta-directed drama Roadie, which stars Ron Eldard as a longtime Blue Oyster Cult roadie who is fired and returns home to Queens, where he has a wild encounter with a pair of old high school buddies. Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy and Lois Smith co-star. The…
Michael Cuesta Joins Showtime Series 'Homeland' As Executive Producer
EXCLUSIVE: Helmer Michael Cuesta, who directed the pilot for Showtime’s newly picked up drama Homeland, is joining the series as an executive producer. This marks the second consecutive pilot directed by Cuesta to go to series following CBS’ Blue Bloods last year. And this is the second time Cuesta is producing a…
Several Television Pilots Land Directors
Former Dexter director-producer Michael Cuesta, who most recently helmed the pilot for CBS’ cop family drama Blue Bloods, has signed on to direct Showtime’s drama pilot Homeland, a psychological thriller from former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon based on an Israeli format.
In other notable recent pilot director…
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