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Universal Sets Secret Service Training Tale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 12:53pm PDTTags: Greg Poirier, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

Universal Pictures is developing a reality-based action film centered around the recruitment and training of Secret Service agents. The studio has optioned a cover story in the Washington Post Magazine by Laura Blumenfeld, and set Greg Poirier to write the script. Poirier’s work includes The Spy Next Door and  National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and he is writing the Ashley Judd-starrer Missing for ABC. Double Feature Films partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher will produce. Blumenfeld went through the training program to write her article and it included shooting weapons, hand-to-hand combat, psychological and other training methods. The Secret Service differs from most law-enforcement branches in that applicants don’t need a law enforcement background to apply. That lends an everyman aspect to a film that will follow a group of aspirants who go through the training program to become agents. There hasn’t been a good Secret Service agent movie since In the Line of Fire, which is surprising considering the high stakes.

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Ashley Judd To Star In ABC Series ‘Missing’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 20, 2011 @ 1:00pm PSTTags: ABC Missing, ABC Pilots, Ashley Judd, Greg Poirier, Missing, Missing Casting, Missing Pilot, Steve Shill, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

In her first regular TV series gig, Ashley Judd is close to a deal to topline ABC’s action series Missing (aka Safe aka Hall of Mirrors). The project, from feature writer Greg Poirier, was once slated for summer but now … Read More »

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ABC Picks Up Drama Series For Summer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 27, 2011 @ 3:57pm PSTTags: ABC, ABC Development, ABC Missing, Grant Scharbo, Greg Poirier, Steve Shill, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

ABC has picked up a second new original scripted series for next summer: Missing (aka Safe aka Hall of Mirrors). The project, from feature writer Greg Poirier (National Treasure: Book of Secrets) and Grant Scharbo and Gina Matthews, the producers behind ABC’s 2010 summer series The Gates, was put on fast-track development in early fall with an order for 3-5 backup scripts. Missing, produced by ABC Studios and Matthews and Scharbo’s Little Engine Prods., centers on a worried mom who, after her son disappears in Italy while overseas for a summer internship, takes it upon herself to travel to Europe and track him down. It soon becomes clear that this isn’t any ordinary woman, but a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive. Steve Shill, who won an Emmy last in August for his directing work on Dexter, is on board to direct multiple epidodes of the series, including the opener. He will also executive produce with Poirier, Scharbo and Matthews. Read More »

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ABC Eyes Another Scripted Summer Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 4, 2010 @ 7:12am PDTTags: Grant Scharbo, Greg Poirier, Steve Shill, TV, TV Development
Nellie Andreeva

ABC seems to be sticking to its strategy of running original scripted series in the summer, putting on the fast track a new project from feature writer Greg Poirier (National Treasure: Book of Secrets) and Grant Scharbo and Gina Matthews, … Read More »

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