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Writer-producer Andrew Miller, who developed and executive produced the CW’s drama series The Secret Circle last season, has sold two hourlong projects: SAGA at ABC, co-produced by Amblin TV, and an untitled Rodeo project at Fox, which has Ruben Fleischer executive producing and potentially directing. Miller is writing/executive producing both shows.
In the high-concept SAGA, which could be a potential companion to ABC’s fairytale drama Once Upon A Time, when the author of a best-selling book series (think J.K. Rowling) goes missing before she can complete the final installment in her epic fantasy saga, a family of fans discovers she’s been kidnapped into the very real world of her books and attempts to rescue her. The project originated with Full Fathom Five, whose James Frey and Todd Cohen will executive produce alongside Amblin TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank as well as Miller. ABC Studios is producing.
The untitled Miller/Fleischer project at Fox is a drama set in the world of Texas ranches and rodeos in which multiple generations of two families on either side of the American Dream struggle for love, power and glory. 20th Century Fox TV, where Fleischer is under an overall deal, is producing. The project stems from a script deal Miller has at the studio.
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SAGA actually sounds pretty good I think
Fantasy show sounds awesome & original. Networks needs more stuff like that.
Saga sounds very much like the Thursday Next book series by Jasper Fforde.
As long as Kathy Bates plays the author, I’m in,,.
“Fantasy show sounds awesome & original”
It sounds an awful lot like the Vertigo comic series “The Unwritten,” actually. A depressing amount like it. Only fitting, since it’s presumably being groomed to share a night with “Once Upon a Time” which is a depressing amount like Vertigo comic series “Fables.”
One thing is for sure, ABC right now is regretting picking up “666 Park Avenue” instead of their “Gotham” pilot this past fall; tat would have fit much better with “OUAT” and “Revenge.”
SAGA sounds fun. But also sounds like a VERY similar idea to the comic book Unwritten.
Fantasy = fake & fruity. No thanks.
All scripted TV is “fake,” genius. It isn’t real.
Said the genius grabbing my coffee…
Look, there’s a difference between dramatic storylines with true-to-life characters in true-to-life situations and then those that feature magical characters with special powers who battle queens and warlocks and worry have zero stakes.
In this real-life world, you would be getting MY coffee. And course there’s a difference between fantasy and non-fantasy drama, a difference that can be explained along lines not entirely dissimilar to the way you did. But did the person I replied to say what you said? No. Employing the word “fake” and saying nothing else shows no understanding whatsoever. Perhaps you would also like to defend the “fruity” characterization? You can think of that defense while you are getting my coffee.
TV abounds in series set in the alleged real world that are so phony in characterization and emotion that they might as well be about elves and unicorns. At least fanatsy is sometimes imaginative and fun to look at.
You look so dumb right now.
Congratulations, Andrew! Hope these go far! Loving the one for ABC. It would go great with a Once, Revenge, SAGA lineup.
Saga sounds like a huge hit…
SAGA seems like a cool concept..i would check it out
Saga sounds cool. I am a big fan of Andrew Miller’s writing, hope these do well!
The idea for Saga is EXACTLY the idea o Barb of Darkness, which was developed at CW last year.exactly.
I concur. Read Barb. My guess: lawyers will be a talkin’.
There are plenty of ideas of this ilk floating around (though none have been good enough to make it to series yet) — some commenters think it’s stolen from one source, some from another. Truth is, lots of writers pitch similar concepts. If, once written, the pilot has same structure, dialogue and/or characters, lawyers would talk. Otherwise it’s no biggie.
Why is it that every time a sci fi or fanatsy premise is mentioned, someone chimes in, “they stole that feom XYZ!”
That just goes to show, there are no original ideas left. Someone, somewhere, already thought of it and put it in a novel or a comic book. Does that mean all TV production should cease?
This is BARB OF DARKNESS, a Manny Coto pilot.
This idea has been done to death. Nobody owns it cause you idiots keep buying it every year.
I love these “down the rabbit hole” tales!
Go, Miller!!
Also a huge fan of Cube.
Sounds terrible. Author trapped in the world of her own made up books? Familiar idea. How does this guy keep selling this crap?
…Because he’s a brilliant writer, asshat.