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EXCLUSIVE: ABC has bought a second high-profile drama project that takes on Robert Louis Stevenson’s split-personality tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Jekyll & Hyde, from ABC Studios, studio-based Mark Gordon Co and feature writer Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice), is described as a suspenseful, darkly romantic retelling of the classic tale with a unique sci-fi twist that I hear may be cloning-related. Set in modern San Francisco, it centers on a female criminal psychologist who is drawn into the mysterious world of a brilliant but inhibited scientist and his volatile alter ego. Going into this development season, ABC brass identified the Jekyll & Hyde lore as one of the areas they wanted to mine. Now the network has two high-profile projects to choose from: the Lopez/Gordon Jekyll & Hyde and the recently sold Hyde, from writer Sheldon Turner. It’s about an ER doctor whose id manifests itself as a different person when he goes to sleep as a result of an experiential medical treatment.
Under new head of drama Nicholas Pepper, the Mark Gordon Co is having one of the busiest development seasons with seven hourlong projects sold so far, six of them to ABC and one, an adaptation of the Gordon-produced feature thriller Source Code, to CBS, where the company has veteran procedural Criminal Minds.
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They bought a series from the guy who wrote Sorcerer’s Apprentice? They figure he’s got nowhere to go but up?
Movie tanked but caught it recently and it ain’t bad. Except for Cage’s hair. That was bad.
The cliche still holds true, you can make a bad movie with a good screenplay, but you can’t make a good movie with a bad screenplay.
When you read the script Socerer’s Apprentice then come back and trash that writer.
Cloning is a cool take for Jekyll and Hyde. At least we haven’t seen it before.
Check out a tv series called Jekyll. it has cloning and jekyll and hyde. (just saying, not saying this will be bad)
Lopez is a fantastic writer and one of the best guys I’ve ever met. I’m betting on this horse.
Wasn’t cloning the unique twist in the BBC version of Jekyll from 2007?
Not really. The hero thinks he’s a genetic descendant of the 19th century Jekyll, but in the last episode he finds out he’s actually a descendant of Hyde. Great performance by James Nesbitt.
They failed to clone Jekyll. Claire was a clone. That’s a lot of cloning for some other show to claim the idea as unique.
So networks are just stealing their ideas for updates of old stories from Stephen Moffat and the BBC I take it.
I’ll with hold judgement on this one. But certainly the “modernized Sherlock Holmes.” Why not just pick up the BBC version? I haven’t met an American who has watched it and not liked it. Co-produce with BBC and give them some American money. I wonder if Moffat nixed the idea due to Dr. Who commitments.
It’s about ownership. Why air foreign shows when American studios can make their own versions that they own and cash in all the profits that come via syndication, DVD sales, etc., if the show is successful? So few people understand this. They just say the US should air the foreign versions without thinking about the economics of it all. It makes little financial sense for a major American network to air a foreign show, though it’s okay for someone like PBS to do so before their financial model is way different.