JamesG
03-05-2015, 02:50 PM
"The Expendables" Event Series in the Works at Fox with Sylvester Stallone Producing
by Nellie Andreeva
March 5, 2015
TV action stars are getting "The Expendables" treatment as Sylvester Stallone’s hit feature franchise is heading to television.
Fox is developing "The Expendables", an event series based on the movies, with the franchise’s writer and star Stallone executive producing alongside the films’ producer Avi Lerner.
Writing/executive producing the TV adaptation are feature writing duo Greg Coolidge (Ride Along) & Kirk Ward and "NCIS: LA" executive producer/showrunner Shane Brennan.
It is described as a fun action drama that unites iconic TV stars as a new team of highly-skilled heroes who are on a mission to stop a dangerous terrorist.
The project hails from Lionsgate TV, whose feature sibling distributes "The Expendables" movies, and CBS TV Studios, where Brennan is under an overall deal.
Also executive producing the potential event series, for which Fox has ordered a script, is Kevin King, long-time executive at Stallone’s Rogue Marble production company.
There is no cast attached or approached yet but the producers have plenty of beloved TV action stars to choose from:
"24‘s" Kiefer Sutherland, "Magnum P.I.’s" Tom Selleck, "Xena‘s" Lucy Lawless, "Quantum Leap‘s" Scott Bakula, "Alias‘" Jennifer Garner, "A-Team‘s" Mr. T, "Strike Back‘s" Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester and, of course, Chuck Norris.
http://deadline.com/2015/03/expendables-tv-series-fox-sylvester-stallone-1201386545/
by Nellie Andreeva
March 5, 2015
TV action stars are getting "The Expendables" treatment as Sylvester Stallone’s hit feature franchise is heading to television.
Fox is developing "The Expendables", an event series based on the movies, with the franchise’s writer and star Stallone executive producing alongside the films’ producer Avi Lerner.
Writing/executive producing the TV adaptation are feature writing duo Greg Coolidge (Ride Along) & Kirk Ward and "NCIS: LA" executive producer/showrunner Shane Brennan.
It is described as a fun action drama that unites iconic TV stars as a new team of highly-skilled heroes who are on a mission to stop a dangerous terrorist.
The project hails from Lionsgate TV, whose feature sibling distributes "The Expendables" movies, and CBS TV Studios, where Brennan is under an overall deal.
Also executive producing the potential event series, for which Fox has ordered a script, is Kevin King, long-time executive at Stallone’s Rogue Marble production company.
There is no cast attached or approached yet but the producers have plenty of beloved TV action stars to choose from:
"24‘s" Kiefer Sutherland, "Magnum P.I.’s" Tom Selleck, "Xena‘s" Lucy Lawless, "Quantum Leap‘s" Scott Bakula, "Alias‘" Jennifer Garner, "A-Team‘s" Mr. T, "Strike Back‘s" Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester and, of course, Chuck Norris.
http://deadline.com/2015/03/expendables-tv-series-fox-sylvester-stallone-1201386545/