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TNT Orders Bounty Hunter Drama Pilot Starring Geena Davis From Dean Devlin

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 5:04pm PSTTags: Dean Devlin, Geena Davis, TNT
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Geena DavisEXCLUSIVE: Only days after TNT opted to end his drama series Leverage after five seasons, Dean Devlin is back at the cable network with a high-profile new hourlong project. TNT has greenlighted a pilot for an untitled quirky bounty hunter drama starring Geena Davis. The show is inspired by the real-life story of bounty hunter Mackenzie Green (watch a short film about her below). It will star the Oscar winner as an unconventional bail bondswoman and bounty hunter whose eccentric personality and unusual tactics give her an advantage in a tough and unpredictable business. Devlin is set to direct the pilot, produced by his independent company Electric Entertainment, Ternion Productions and 3 Arts. Scott Prendergast and Leverage writer-producer Amy Berg wrote the script; Berg and Devlin and will serve as showrunners. The trio will executive produce with Ternion’s John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky and 3 Arts’ Tom Lassally and Michael Rotenberg. Davis serves as co-executive producer. In addition to Leverage, Devlin also executive produced TNT’s successful Librarian original movie trilogy. This marks TNT’s second drama pilot order in as many days, following the pickup of Steven Bochco’s Murder In The First yesterday. Berg and Prendergast are with UTA.

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‘Leverage’ Could Be Back As A Movie, Says Dean Devlin

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday January 11, 2013 @ 5:47pm PSTTags: Dean Devlin, Leverage, TNT

TNT has cancelled Leverage but the show might not be dead after all says Dean Devlin. “We’re going to try to shop it around now and see if there is any other interest elsewhere,” the executive producer told Deadline … Read More »

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Skydance Spends Big For Global Disaster Film By Dean Devlin And Paul Guyot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 11:13am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, David Ellison, Dean Devlin, Skydance Productions
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EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal, David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has pre-emptively purchased an untitled global disaster film spec script written by Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot. Devlin will make his feature directing debut. Skydance’s Ellison and Dana Goldberg will produce with Devlin and his Electric Entertainment team of Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan.

Devlin returns to the global destruction sandbox he played in when he and then-partner Roland Emmerich sold their Independence Day spec for millions, a guaranteed Fox green light and release date, and a global gross north of $800 million. They continued the destruction with Godzilla. While Emmerich continued crushing the planet with The Day After and 2012 (he and Devlin are working on two Independence Day sequels), Devlin formed Electric Entertainment and has put together movies (one was Flyboys, which featured avid aviator Ellison onscreen), and the Noah Wyle telepic series The Librarian. Devlin is currently exec producer of the TNT series Leverage. Guyot, Devlin’s co-writer on the spec, is supervising producer of that series. Read More »

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Dean Devlin Says ‘Leverage’ Season Finale Written As Series Finale

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 6, 2012 @ 4:28pm PSTTags: Dean Devlin, Leverage, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

With the future of TNT‘s drama Leverage still in limbo, the executive producer took to the show’s fan site to post an open letter saying he and co-creator John Rogers decided to end the current Season 5 … Read More »

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