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Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is venturing into television with a drama project at Fox, which puts a supernatural twist on the cop/legal genre. Titled Magical Law, the project is being written by Pirates scribe Terry Rossio. It is set in a world where the existence of supernatural beings is commonplace and follows the specialized cops and lawyers who face the unique challenges of prosecuting otherworldly crimes.
20th Century Fox TV and Verbinski’s Blind Wink Prods. are producing Magical Law, which has received a script commitment with penalty from the network. Verbinski and Rossio are executive producing with veteran TV writer-producer Jeff Rake, who is supervising the writing, and Blind Wink’s Jonathan Krauss. Verbinski could possibly direct the project if it goes to pilot. CAA-repped Verbinski and Rossio worked together on the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean movies, which Verbinski directed and Rossio co-wrote. Rossio most recently co-wrote the upcoming fourth installment in the Pirates franchise, while Verbinski is in post-production on his animated feature Rango.
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It sounds a lot like the DEFENDING ANGELS book series by Mary Stanton.
They should take 10 seconds and come up with a better title.
The otherworldly criminals are repped by Wolfram & Hart.
Wolff and Byrd has more experience.
Gee. Do Michael Bendis and Alan Moore, just to name a few of the many comic book writers who mined this particular lode, get checks for this? Probably not.
Check out POWERS by Bendis or Top TEN by Moore. Good, brave stuff.
Sounds a lot like Batton Lash’s SUPERNATURAL LAW (aka WOLFF & BYRD, COUNSELORS OF THE MACABRE), the comic strip/comic book that started in 1979.
I concur.
Wow. Terry Rossio writing a completely derivative script for something? He must have come up with this one on his own.
Wow, I second the reference to Supernatural Law. It’s the same premise. Hope Batton Lash gets some input, or a lawyer.
I hope that Supernatural Law’s creator Batton Lash is getting some type of compensation for Gore Verbinski and Terry Rossio so called “creation”.
This show sounds great. It seems similar to the Buffy/Angel universe. (Love the Wolfram and Hart reference.) It also reminds be a bit of The Dresden Files book series by Jim Butcher. I will have to check out the ‘Defending Angels’ books and the ‘Supernatural Law’ comics.
Sounds just like a clone of X Files and Fringe.
Wasn’t there some show on CBS like this a few years ago?
Supernatural Law? You guys are aware that this is a *genre* of fiction with hundreds, maybe even thousands of books, which dates back to 1920 and Sax Rohmer, right?
If you Google “Supernatural Law” you’ll find that all the top entries are for Batton’s book series and webcomic.
just wanted to make sure that all you geniuses realize that just because two things have similar taglines doesn’t mean they will be even close to the same thing. there’s so much moaning on this blog about the crap that hollywood churns out. well here’s the team that made pirates of the caribbean, one of the best pieces of entertainment this millennium. let’s play “wait and see” instead of “freak the f#@k out” shall we?
The logline sounds exactly like Ugly Americans only not as awesome.
I agree. This sounds just like Batton Lash’s comic book Supernatural Law.
It’s exactly a ripoff of Supernatural Law, but without the comedy. Only total hacks would steal something so blatantly and then make it worse with the wrong tone.
Jeff Rake is a hack…can’t get anything to stay in the air. all his ideas are rip-offs of other shows.