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Neil Marshall To Direct Starz’s ‘Black Sails’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 4:28pm PDTTags: Black Sails, Neil Marshall, Starz
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Feature writer-director Neil Marshall (The Descent) is set to direct the pilot episode of Starz’s upcoming pirate drama series Black Sails, executive produced by Michael Bay. The eight-episode series, created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, is set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island and chronicles the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint and his men. The series is currently in pre-production in Cape Town, South Africa, with Starz brass eying it for a launch in early 2014, possibly inheriting the Spartacus slot.

Marshall recently made his TV debut directing the Blackwater episode of HBO’s fantasy series Game Of Thrones, which received a lot of praise for its depiction of the Battle of the Blackwater, described as one of the best battle sequences ever done on television. Marshall, repped by ICM Partners and Principato-Young, is currently developing the features Hellfest for Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla and CBS Films and The Last Voyage of the Demeter for Phoenix Pictures and Millennium.

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Neil Marshall To Direct ‘Hellfest’ For CBS Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 5:08pm PSTTags: Halloween, Neil Marshall
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Neil Marshall is in early talks to direct Hellfest, the CBS Films horror project about a costumed killer who systematically slaughters the unsuspecting visitors who come to a theme park on Halloween night. The plan is for this to … Read More »

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David Gardner Makes Partner At Principato-Young

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 21, 2011 @ 7:47am PDTTags: Ann Peacock, Jonathan Liebesman, Judy Greer, Neil Marshall, Paul Young, Peter Principato, Principato-Young Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: David Gardner has been promoted to partner at Principato-Young Entertainment, joining Peter Principato, Paul Young, Brian Dobbins and Allen Fischer in partner posts. Gardner has worked there since 2003 and has a client list that includes Jonathan Liebesman, Judy … Read More »

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Neil Marshall Among Directors Booked For HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Game of Thrones, HBO, Neil Marshall
Nellie Andreeva

Feature director Neil Marshall (The Descent) is set to direct an episode from the second season of HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones. This marks the TV debut of Marshall, repped by ICM and Principato-Young, who a huge fan of … Read More »

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