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EXCLUSIVE: Living up to its “Brace Yourself” slogan, Showtime has put in development another provocative project, neo-Nazi drama The 4th Reich. The project, executive produced by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, is described as American History X meets The Town. 
It is a high-octane crime thriller delving into race, religion, and politics through the lens of a dogmatic faction of the neo-Nazi movement in South Boston. When a former leader is sprung from jail by agreeing to become a confidential informant to the FBI, he assimilates back to his old life and finds his estranged 15-year-old son has been co-opted by his former best friend and now current leader of the Brotherhood. The trajectory of the series will track the central character caught between two worlds as he starts to gain perspective and change.
4th Reich, written on spec by Sonya Winton and Jonathan Kidd, has been a passion project for Rosenthal as it dovetailes with Tribeca’s work with Against Violent Extremism, a “social network” for former violent extremists and their victims. Backed by the Google Ideas think tank, AVE’s goal is to counter violent extremists. In that context, people close to the project stress that The 4th Reich is not just another violent show but hits on the human stories of former extremists and people affected by extremism to help influence “at risk” young people.
Tribeca first set up the 4th Reich spec at CBS TV Studios where the company is under an overall deal. It was taken to Showtime, which immediately bought it for development. De Niro and Rosenthal serve as executive producers, Paradigm-repped Winton and Kidd as co-executive producers and Tribeca’s Berry Welsh as producer. This marks Tribeca’s second major project at Showtime, where the company also has in the works The Good Shepherd, a period drama based on the characters from the 2006 Cold War feature spy thriller directed by De Niro. The film’s writer, Oscar winner Eric Roth, is writing the series adaptation, with De Niro set to direct.
CAA-repped Tribeca and CBS TV Studios also have two drama scripts in contention at CBS, a legal drama from Danny Strong and David O. Russell and family medical drama from TV writer/playwright Diana Son.
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Who knew there were so many neo nazi sympathizers perusing the deadline message boards.
I know, right? I was just thinking the exact same thing.
Kinda scary.
Put on your big-boy pants and try to man up. Some day you’ll encounter something that warrants being frightened about.
Hmm, I don’t know — I think this sudden torrent of ignorant outrage and self-righteous anger in response to a script that clearly most of the commenters haven’t read — just object to having read a simple logline — warrants a little fear…
::shiver::
this response is brimming with ignorant outrage and self righteous anger. just saying.
” just object to having read a simple logline ”
Yep…because we all know green-lit pitches have nothing to do with “simple loglines” – yep, I recall the reams of sociological research and documentation that network execs demand before deciding to air a show…
That’s how Transformers 1-3 got green-lit, right, Optimus Prime?
Translation: “I’m racist but too chicken sh-t to come out so I’ll just be internet tough guy. Herp derp!”
What tosh. We are in an age when radical Islamists are killing millions of people the world over and these idiots focus on “American Nazis” as if they are somehow a major problem. What liberal garbage. No “Nazis” any where in this country have any power, have any reach into the general populace, and are any danger to anyone. They are powerless nut cases that no one likes. But they are the focus of this idiotic film? Typical liberals. Just typical.
Great, a new show taking on every American’s darkest fear–neo-Nazi terrorists! If you had to wrack your brain to come up with the safest target in the world, you couldn’t do better–a despicable, powerless infintesimal group of bigoted white men. Can the reviews lauding the courage of these producers be far away? How about a show depicting the activities of a Muslim sleeper cell in Detroit? Now that would take some courage!
that show exists. it was called sleeper cell. it was also on showtime. you should watch it, it was good.
Haven’t read this pilot, but heard it was incredibly intense. J and Sonya are great writers and deserve this, so good for them.
“Intense” I actually lol’ed.
The german people are good people. They have been horribly victimized. The filth of zionist are destroying America. Do not watch their filth on TV. Turn the filth off.
same method has tarnished southerners too
Stereotypical propaganda pushing this incessant liberal fantasy.
You know, those evil white guys..that group who wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers. Those who ended slavery (on their VERY OWN !)
Those men who ignited the Industrial revolution, established the IVY League, fought and defeated the AXIS, established modern medicine, fed the world, put a man on the moon.
Men of renoun who fought and died for liberty and have been some of Gods greatest creations….Just, generous, intelligent, and compassionate.
Men who created a nation built on the rule of law, developed a vibrant economy, and (then)opened this country up to every other culture, race, and creed. (Yes…we did this on our own…
we did not need any instruction, any moral tutelage, we were
quite capable).
We created a nation which is the envy of the world and for
some reason, it now needs to be dismantled. “Fundamentally
Transformed” I guess is what our new masters tell us.
Yep ! Those evil White men…gotta put out the alert on them.
funny that no one who has commented has actually read the script or knows anything about the project…
how do you know that?
Maybe this will be as realistic as Sons of Anarchy where the gang is multicultural and are always hungging each other every five minutes? I’ll pass, thanx.
I read and hate the fact that someone else got it. Props to Tribeca because Winton & Kidd are the REAL deal. Huge fan.
I agree with all those who are sick and tired of Hollywood using the tediously banal KKK as a backdrop to denigrate the white race. The bottom line is that the producers are COWARDS! You won’t seem them making a film about the evils of one segment of Islam. Perhaps they would really fear for their lives. It occurs to me that perhaps the world might remember that almost every invention used by all mankind today was created by, yes, the evil white man: cars, airplanes, computers, radios, television, etc, and on and on and on. So Hollywood, sell your crap to someone else.
I reckon the soft core porn movies on Cinemax will get a bigger audience share than Bobby DeNiro’s exercise in leftwing political masturbation.
Of course, NEVER a show about extremist Anarchists or extremist Communist activists; or even extremist Animal Rights/Eco-Terrorists……
Sumner Redstone owns it. Explains everything.
Go back to the idiot box mike.
We have Neo-Nazi’s in South Boston LOL :}. I have lived in Bean Town my entire life and have never seen one.
Leave it to DeNiro; he can do it all. Are you going to be driving a cab in the movie?; you fruitcake.
Hollywood has been obsessed with Nazis-original and neo-for nine decades now.I think it’s time to move on to something else. With the skinheads, they try to create the illusion that minuscule bands of white bangers with swazi tattoos are somehow more of a menace than the Cripps, Bloods and MS-13 bangers who murder, rape and loot at 1,000 times the rate.
I really hope they don’t have southie Irish catholic nazis on this show especially seeing how anti-nazi the IRA is.Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of casual racists in Boston but you will hardly find any who actually join a hate group over it.
Why can’t hollywood come out with another Rat Patrol!!
Heck, we have been at war for a long time, patriotism sells. Just don’t throw in too many anti-american plot lines.
Another bring back could be All In The Family!! I would love to see some heads explode if that show where true to the original.
I think this Neo-Nazi stuff is getting old. I haven’t heard anything in the last ten years about them, but constantly hear, on a daily basis about black gangs, Mexican cartel gangs, MS13 gangs and muslim terrorists. Oh, that’s right you can’t make a movie about them because it’s not politically correct or you will be called racists or even worse, that terrorists or muslim extremists might kill you.
Then you haven’t been paying attention. According to the FBI’s own stats, of the groups responsible for attempted or successful domestic terrorist attacks since 2010, more than DOUBLE have been committed by white supremacist groups than all others. They just don’t get as much publicity.
This story was broadcast on Stormfront and a neo-nazi-oriented forum called VNN. That’s where these nutjob commenters are coming from.
That explains why you’re here I suppose.
If you want to be afraid of something, be afraid that not EVERYONE in the business chooses to fall in lockstep with your Gestapo and moan and writhe and masturbate to each and every piece of propaganda spewed out as “entertainment”. We’re everywhere. We’re growing. And we’re not going away. Not even “house slaves” like me. Get over it.
Let’s see…”violent extremism, violent extremism”. Is there any group that, say, has killed thousands of American civilians in cold blood, and openly prays to kill millions more? How about a show about that group? Oh that’s right, they’re a minority religion, so they get pass. Good.
will this show also interview or incorporate ex-members of the Weather Underground such as Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn? you know the ex-Weather Ground members who were an American militant organization that carried out a series of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots from 1969 through the 1970s, including killing SGT Brian V. McDonnel in San Francisco in 1970 and injuring others in other bombings, and are now respected college professors and authors and well as political activist?
Warner Todd Huston is right, every TV show, movie, book, song, and newspaper article in the U.S. today should be focusing on radical Islamic extremists, no matter what! Variety in entertainment? What’s that? Everything ever should focus on a single topic, because that’s what’s important to ‘Murica. ‘MURICA.
Question:
Why the holy hell are folks up in arms about a show dealing with neo Nazis? They’re VILLAINS! Who gives a damn?
Seriously, want an anti-Islam extremism show? Watch Homeland. Just…stop assuming that every viewer is so narrow-minded that they’d think seeing neo Nazis on TV automatically relegates the white race to a position of “evil” or whatever.
Some of us are more than capable of separating certain elements from the wider body of a race, faith, etc. Even if they’re neo Nazis or ::GASP:: Muslims.
“I think this Neo-Nazi stuff is getting old. I haven’t heard anything in the last ten years about them, but constantly hear, on a daily basis about black gangs, Mexican cartel gangs, MS13 gangs and muslim terrorists.”
In order:
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Gangland
Homeland
These shows exist, people!
“These shows exist.”
All but one was quickly cancelled. And you’re forgetting Sleeper Cell.
Of course you’ll not the difference being that, in those shows, the same kind of people who were the villains were also the good guys. Is that the case with this De Niro project?