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Rene Echevarria Joins CBS Drama Pilot ‘Intelligence’ As Exec Producer/Showrunner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 27, 2013 @ 9:54am PSTTags: Intelligence, Matt Miller, Rene Echevarria, The Hundred
Nellie Andreeva

Rene Echevarria has joined CBS’ drama pilot Intelligence as executive producer/showrunner. He will be partnering with creator/executive producer Michael Seitzman in running the series for ABC Studios and CBS TV Studios. Based on unpublished book Dissident by John Dixon, Intelligence, which stars Josh Holloway, is centered at U.S. Cyber Command and focuses on a unit that has been created around one agent with a very special gift — a microchip has been implanted in his brain that allows him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Star Trek veteran Echevarria, repped by WME, served as executive producer/showrunner on Fox’s Terra Nova. He also co-created USA’s The 4400 and worked on Medium and Castle. READ MORE »

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TCA: Producers Admit There Was A “Learning Curve” on ‘Terra Nova’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 5:42pm PDTTags: Brannon Braga, Fox, Jason O'Mara, Jon Cassar, Rene Echevarria, Steven Spielberg, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association, Terra Nova

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA

Fox’s drama Terra Nova is really going to premiere in September, the producers of the megabucks Fox prehistoric drama Terra Nova – which seemingly has been in some form of production since the Jurassic Period — assured critics and at a TCA panel this afternoon. Exec producers Rene Echevarria, Brannon Braga and Jon Cassar insisted that not only would the show be premiering on schedule with a two-hour rollout on Sept. 26; the other installments of the 13-episode production are finally coming along despite the challenging visual effects and production complexities stemming from the Queensland, Australia shoot. The two-hour pilot originally was earmarked to air in May, but issues stemming from the drama’s cutting-edge technology pushed it back to fall.

And now? Will everything be delivered on time? “Absolutely,” Echevarria assured the room. “Right now, we’re shooting episodes 8 and 9. We’re in post on 3, 4 and 5. We’re putting the finishing touches on the second hour of the dinosaur-rich pilot after doing some reshoots in Australia. We’re also prepping episodes 10 and 11. Just about every episode is in play right now … This show certainly is ambitious in scope and has it’s challenges. But we’ve finally wrangled it …There is a pipeline that has been created with the visual effects house as well as the animation and rendering and texturing. Was there a learning curve? Yes.” Read More »

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‘Terra Nova’ Showrunner Rene Echevarria Signs Overall Deal With 20th TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 11, 2011 @ 7:15pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, overall deal, Rene Echevarria
Nellie Andreeva

Terra Nova executive producer/showrunner Rene Echevarria has signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behind the upcoming pre-historic drama series, which recently scored high marks in network testings of the pilot. Under the two-year, seven-figure pact, he will continue to run Terra Nova, which is set to begin production on the remaining episodes of its 13-episode order on June 1 in Australia. The deal also includes potential development but, at least for the time being, he is expected to focus on Terra Nova full-time. Echevarria has a resume that features both sci-fi and character-driven shows, and 20th TV chairman Gary Newman called him “probably the perfect person to assume leadership of Terra Nova,” which he described as a compelling family drama with action and special effects. “This is the most ambitious special effect show ever done in television, which shoots on the other end of the world, so it requires somebody with the maturity, leadership and strength that Rene possesses,” Newman said. Read More »

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TCA: Fox Going Back To The Future With ‘Terra Nova’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 11, 2011 @ 5:12pm PSTTags: Brannon Braga, Peter Chernin, Rene Echevarria, Steven Spielberg, TCA, Television Critics Association, Terra Nova, Terra Nova Finance, Terra Nova Production, TV

From Ray Richmond, who has been contributing to Deadline Hollywood’s TCA coverage:
The word for months has been that the big, expensive new Fox drama series Terra Nova has been a show out of control, rife with cost overruns and writing … Read More »

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What Is Going On With Fox’s ‘Terra Nova’?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 4, 2010 @ 3:07am PDTTags: Allan Loeb, Brannon Braga, Fox Terra Nova, Peter Chernin, Rene Echevarria, Steven Spielberg, Terra Nova
Nellie Andreeva

A lot has been written lately, accurately and often inaccurately, about Fox’s high-profile prehistoric drama series Terra Nova whose behind-the-scene dealings are being put under a microscope because of the project’s enormous scope and the big auspices involved, executive producers … Read More »

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ABC Lands James Cameron’s ‘True Lies’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 17, 2010 @ 3:20pm PDTTags: ABC Charlie's Angels Remake, ABC Paul Lee, Rene Echevarria, True Lies, TV Development
Nellie Andreeva

ABC, which has been largely out of the spy genre since Alias, is reentering it in a big way. The network, which already is developing a Charlie’s Angels reboot, just landed the series adaptation of James Cameron’s 1994 action comedy True … Read More »

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James Cameron Adapting ‘True Lies’ For TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 13, 2010 @ 10:33am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, James Cameron, Jon Landau, Lightstorm Entertainment, Rae Sanchini, Rene Echevarria, True Lies
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After smashing box office records with Titanic, James Cameron segued to television with a primetime series. Now, after topping Titanic’s record haul with Avatar, Cameron is returning to TV with what is one of the hottest projects this development … Read More »

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