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ABC has put in development Coup, a drama written by Mad Men co-executive producer Chris Black. Feature director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) is on board to executive produce and direct. Coup is a serialized thriller about a young American man whose wife is taken hostage in an overseas coup, and who must join forces with a dangerous mercenary to get her back. ABC Studio is producing. The project falls under Campbell’s overall deal with ABC Studios. It is his second sale at ABC through ABC Studios this season, along with soap Killer Women, which Campbell executive produces along with writer Hannah Shakespeare, Ben Silverman, Sofia Vergara and Luis Balaguer. Additionally, Campbell is attached to executive produce and direct a re-imagining of Terry Nation’s classic British space series Blake’s 7 for Syfy, being written by Joe Pokaski and produced by Georgeville Television. Campbell is repped by CAA and Walter Teller & Ken Richman; Black, whose credits also include Desperate Housewives and Star Trek: Enterprise, is with WME.
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Chris Black is one of the best writers I’ve worked with, and one of the nicest as well. I’m really looking forward to seeing this.
Strange. Why is ABC buying (and even putting on air, ahem Last Resort) projects that are movies pretending to be TV? This concept can’t sustain more than a season… two tops. Maybe at the end of the arc the husband and the mercenary will have done such a great job saving his wife that they go into private business (and/or are hired by the government) and the entire first arc will have been a premise pilot for a much less personal and more generic series.
Didn’t ABC just try almost exactly this same premise a few months ago with ‘Missing’ but with her son being kidnapped (instead of the wife)?
No. It is not the same premise. Is this all because there is a kidnapping?
The real question is why even attempt this on network? It’ll be dumbed down without question. Sounds much more like a cable show if executed properly.
Not sure why any writer who doesn’t write soapy melodrama would even attempt Network at this point. Especially ABC.
I agree, but maybe HBO, FX, A&E and Showtime passed.
Seems a lot like the Dowdle bros film… by the same title currently shooting with Brosnan and Wilson http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1781922/
Hopefully ABC can schedule it Thursdays at 8.
Well, if anyone can pull it off it’s Chris Black – great writer.