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EXCLUSIVE: Three weeks into filming on Cinemax’s 12-episode series Transporter, the action drama’s executive producers/showrunners Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie have left over creative differences. Veteran TV director-producer Steven Shill, who was recently brought in to work alongside Mallozzi and Mullie, is now expected to take over showrunner duties, at least for the time being. The series is in production in Toronto, currently working on Episodes 4-5; shooting is scheduled to continue through November for a 2012 premiere. Based on Luc Besson’s Transporter film franchise, the series stars Chris Vance as professional transporter Frank Martin, who can always be counted on to get the job done — discreetly. Andrea Osvart co-stars on the show, a France/Canada international treaty co-production that is being executive produced by Besson, Fred Fuchs and Robert Cooper. It is Cinemax’s second original primetime series to go into production, following Strike Back, which premiered this summer to solid numbers.
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Steve Shill is a REAL talent. The show will be in great hands under his guidance. Couldn’t be a nicer guy as well
I want Luc Besson and Cinemax to know I’m ready to take the reins. References available upon request.
Sorry, can’t see anyone but Jason Statham in the Transporter role.
For those who have seen the films, the first episode has to really catch their attention and interest.
Statham cut his teeth on gritty UK films thanks to Guy Ritchie and I find it interesting that Luc Besson got his idea for The Transporter from those great BMW ads, The Driver.
I’d rather wait until a new Statham films comes around than ruin my taste for the original Transporters (however flawed they were).
If this doesnt cause worry about this production I dont know what will. Nothing against Steve Shill but all I see right now this “exit” ending up to be a major loss for what couldve been a decent show. good going cinemax.
After the way that Mallozzi and Mullie turned Stargate Atlantis into a galactic disaster, I can only say that their exit is the best possible news for Transporter’s survival.
This news actully makes me willing to give Transporter a chance. The poster above me is right. The Mallozzi/Mullie duo (outside of season one) were the weakest writers for Stargate Atlantis along with Brad Wright. They took a VERY successful show for MGM and the Sci-Fi/Syfy network and butchered it. And even then, loyal fans rallied behind it because they wanted the show; they also just wanted better writing and direction which the duo and Wright couldn’t provide. The way they treated fans was horrible. I may be wrong to say it, but this is really good news.
Joseph Mallozzi says that he and Mullie are moving on to do a comic book now. I think that (and maybe anime) suits them and their abilities better. They should stick to that.
At least the transporter is at less of a risk of being cancelled, with 2 of the guys who destroyed Stargate(Mallozzi and Mullie) now gone.
2 Terrible writers gone, 1 quality guy as a replacement
Win win situation lol
I see that all of the angry nerds are coming out of their mother’s basement to post.
‘Mother’s basement?’
Well it looks like one of the veeery few SGU fans has shown up. It’s okay, we understand. You’re still upset that your favorite show went down because us ‘basement dwellers’ couldn’t stand it and therefore wouldn’t keep supporting it.
We kept Stargate alive and well for 15 years, and the only reason why SGU lasted the mere season and a half that it did before it was canceled is because of all of the ‘basement dwellers’ that held on for that long, giving it ‘chances’.
Hopefully, SGU creator Robert Cooper and co. don’t try to ‘reimagine’ the Transporter franchise the way that he and Brad did with their ‘New Stargate’.
I said that with the duo leaving that makes me willing to give Transporter A chance. If I watch the premiere and fall asleep because of slow/dreary/depressing or because I can’t SEE the show, then I’m out, never to return.
Like most television watchers, I just want to be entertained. Maybe the Transporter series can do that if they don’t mess it up. So what do you say, chocky, are you willing to step out of your broom closet and let bygones be bygones?
Unfortunately, Stargate is over, and that’s just a fact.