Development News - July 25, 2014
AMC's White City and Cinemax's Outcast.
AMC's WHITE CITY
- AMC has given a pilot order to White City a drama from co-writers and co-executive producers Nick McDonell and John Dempsey. Executive producers are Chris Mundy and Tom Freston. The project focuses on Jon Liston, a war junkie who has spent the better part of the last decade in Kabul with a front-row seat to the carnage. Against the advice of everyone from American embassy staffers to the tweeting tribal leaders to the French journalist he's in a relationship with, Jon tragically overreaches in an attempt to talk with insurgent leaders. In the series, Jon must find a new role in Kabul as he attempts to address his guilt, frustration and doubts about whether there is good left for him or any Westerner to do in Afghanistan.
CINEMAX's OUTCAST
- Cinemax has officially ordered Outcast, a drama project from The Walking Dead executive producer Robert Kirkman, to pilot. Executive producers include David Alpert Sue Naegle, Chris Black and Sharon Tal Yguado. Fox International Channels and Circle of Confusion will produce. Based on a comic also by Kirkman, the project centers on Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a journey to find answers, but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.
