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Alfred Gough & Miles Millar Near Deal To Write MGM’s Vin Diesel Movie ‘The Machine’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 18, 2012 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, MGM, Miles Millar
Mike Fleming

Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are in final negotiations to write The Machine, the Vin Diesel-starring action comedy that is also the first new production for the restructured MGM. Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant wrote the original script, about a human-like machine created in secrecy by the Pentagon to be the world’s first ultimate weapon. After the machine was decommissioned and buried it is discovered, reactivated and befriended by a kid 20 years later. When the government learns that it’s back in operation, the machine’s mission becomes to protect the family harboring him. Diesel, who also is producing via his One Race Films, was set to star when the project was unveiled in May 2011. The hope is to create a franchise. READ MORE »

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TCA: ABC’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’ To Be “More Grounded, More Real” Than Predecessors

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday August 7, 2011 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: ABC, Al Gough, Charlie's Angels, Drew Barrymore, Leonard Goldberg, Miles Millar, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA.

At this summer’s TCA, across the networks, there has been more than one panel including earnest, beautiful young women, mostly clad in teeny-tiny skirts and architecturally challenging platform heels, talking about how retro shows about gaggles of “girls” answering primarily to male bosses are actually all about female empowerment. Network execs and show producers also seem to be repeating the girl-power mantra. The main cases in point: NBC’s set-in-the-’60s The Playboy Club, ABC’s new Pan Am and the remake of the 1976-81 series Charlie’s Angels, co-executive produced by Leonard Goldberg with Drew Barrymore (veteran of the Charlie’s Angels movies) and creators/executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar (both of Smallville). The show was unveiled at last month’s Comic-Con with the phrase: “These ain’t your mama’s angels.”

Following this morning’s Charlie’s Angels panel, I asked Millar the empowerment question: Really? He at first seemed to be addressing the issue by saying that initially, Gough’s and Miller’s wives didn’t want them to do the show. Why? Because the original angels were such role models to the producers’ spouses, Millar said reverently. “They didn’t believe we could do it [and maintain] the legacy of Charlie’s Angels.” Millar said during the panel that the idea of the new series was not to make “a cynical remake” of the original, nor to assume the same tone as the movies, about which Gough said: “[They were] superheroes for girls, post-Matrix … [the new show will] bring to the table more grounded, more real” characters with somewhat dark back stories. “You want to have something to come back to every week.” Describing the tone of the new show, Gough said: “If Jack Bauer and Carrie Bradshaw had a love child, it would be [the new] Charlie’s Angels.” Read More »

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ABC’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’ To Shoot Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 27, 2010 @ 5:21pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Charlie's Angels Remake, ABC Pilots, Al Gough, Charlie's Angels Pilot, Drew Barrymore, Leonard Goldberg, Miles Millar, Sony TV, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After a year in development, ABC’s Charlie’s Angels reboot is headed to pilot production. The Sony TV-produced project was originally set up at ABC with a pilot commitment last November with Josh Friedman as a writer. It didn’t go … Read More »

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