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EXCLUSIVE: With the networks’ buying season half-way done, trends are starting to emerge. Along with the very strong showing by the comedy genre so far and the continued strength of book adaptations, enjoying popularity are shows about treasure hunts. The latest entry is an untitled adventure drama from Eagle Eye writer John Glenn, which has been bought by NBC. Described as “Da Vinci Code meets National Treasure,” it centers on a young NYPD beat cop who, along with his family and friends, embarks upon the greatest treasure hunt in history. Glenn is executive producing with Maria Grasso and Deborah Spera for Sony Pictures TV where the two recently inked a pod deal.
NBC also is developing an updated version of the 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film Romancing the Stone, whose plot kicked off with a romance writer played by Kathleen Turner receiving a treasure map. Mark Friedman is writing the adaptation. And in another book adaptation, ABC recently bought The Seven Wonders, a treasure hunt show in the spirit of Raiders of the Lost Arc and National Treasure based on the Jack West Jr. series of adventure books by Australian author Matthew Reilly. Michael Seitzman is writing and Mark Gordon producing.
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Deb Spera and Mark Gordon both with treasure hunter shows….. Awkward.
And none of them will go to series, because you can’t do Raiders every week. It’s not a story engine and serialized treasure hunting is asinine. No one gives a shit about finding treasure week in and week out.
It doesn’t have to be week in and week out, ever heard of a show called LOST? Shows can last years with the payoff at the end of the series run. What if National Treasure had been broken up in to 13 episodes?
Indiana Jones isn’t a story engine? There were 3 sequels to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Numerous books. Numerous video games. Comic books. All of those are stories. I’m quite curious where they came from if there was no story engine. I’m not saying these shows will be gigantic hits… though I think they are worth a shot. But you can’t claim there isn’t a STORY ENGINE in Indiana Jones. The engine is the character.
Agree wholeheartedly
Would you rather: watch any of these pilots, each of which will no doubt be directed by D.J. Caruso -or- watch your own mother take a piledriver through a steel cage and onto a table full of thumbtacks courtesy of The Undertaker?
One will go to series, it’ll hemorrhage viewers the entire season and the network will keep it on so they don’t have to admit they were wrong. This, of course will happen after it takes a long hiatus where they will make a failed attempt to fix the show and by then, no one will care.
Sounds like everyone here is begging for another lawyer show… Or just pissed they’re still a writers assistant. Get back to that pilot, Gunts… You won’t get staffed off of deadline Hollywood hate.