Showtime has put in development Kill Creek, an hour-long drama based on Scott Thomas’ award-winning novel of the same name, with Underground co-creator Misha Green and Doctor Strange helmerScott Derrickson set to executive produce. Derrickson also will direct. Showtime and Platform One Media, the production and…

Director-writer and newly minted Academy member Justin Simien is taking his voice to the podcast universe with his new podcast “Don’t @ Me.” In the trailer below, the creator of Netflix’s acclaimed comedy Dear White People describes the KCRW podcast as an “attitude.” Each episode will feature conversations with…

UPDATED with full list, full rankings: This year's The Black List, the annual rundown of Hollywood's top screenplays that haven't been produced, has been revealed this morning. Matthew Firpo and Ryan Firpo’s script Ruin received the most votes this year for their story of  a nameless ex-Nazi captain who must navigate…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is reviving Cleopatra Jones, the 1973 blaxploitation female empowerment film that starred Tamara Dobson as the undercover government agent who used the day job of supermodel as her cover and an excuse to travel to exotic places. The studio has set Misha Green to write the script and produce a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix outbid several suitors for Mother, an action thriller by Underground co-creator Misha Green that Deadline tipped yesterday as a hot spec sent to buyers on the eve of the historical opening of Wonder Woman. Several bidders chased this script that has a female protagonist in a scenario reminiscent of T…

EXCLUSIVE: Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television on Lovecraft Country, a one-hour drama that has been given a straight-to-series order by HBO. The pilot will be written by Underground executive producer/showrunner/writer Misha Gree…

“We do so much research, and our problem is we find so many great things,” Underground co-creator Joe Pokaski said last night, discussing the second season of the WGN America series. “As we read about Harriet [Tubman] and started to understand her, we all know she's a superhero; it's about understanding her as a…

WGN America’s Underground made waves at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday by showing three powerful clips that had the audience cheering along. In attendance were series creators and executive producers Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, director Anthony Hemingway, as well as actors Alano Miller and Aisha Hinds, who…

WGN America and Sony Pictures Television have a unique contender in Misha Green and Joe Pokaski’s Underground in that it’s the first TV series that has been made about the Underground Railroad. In preparing for the project, Green was struck by the slave narratives she researched at the Library of Congress.  “These…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of  tonight's Underground Season 1 finale. With a lot of blood, cunning, bravery and vengeance, Season 1 of Underground came to an end tonight. In more ways that one, it has been a very successful run for the Misha Green and Joe Pokaski-created series about the 19th century…