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ABC, "Eureka" co-creator adapting "Toxic City" novels
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Nov 1, 2012, 8:05:47 PM11/1/12
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Alex Proyas To Produce & Direct ABC Drama Project Penned By �Eureka�
Co-Creator
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
EXCLUSIVE: In his first foray into network television, Alex Proyas,
director of such features as I, Robot, The Crow, and Dark City, is set
to direct and executive produce Evolve, a drama project for ABC
written and executive produced by Jaime Paglia, co-creator/executive
producer of Syfy�s long-running series Eureka. Paglia�s sci-fi
background will come in handy for Evolve, which is based on the Toxic
City trilogy of novels by British Fantasy Award- and Bram Stoker
Award-winning author Tim Lebbon. Evolve is set two years after a
mysterious biological agent is released over Los Angeles when the city
is still deemed too toxic to inhabit and remains sealed off from the
rest of society. A small group of ordinary citizens outside the
quarantined zone, who do not believe the government�s story, embark on
a mission to uncover the truth of what happened to their family
members who were inside the affected area. What they discover is a
world where once-ordinary humans now have extraordinary abilities and
powerful government forces seek to destroy them.
ABC Studios is producing Evolve, with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Michael
Prevett and Jeremy Bell of the Gotham Group executive producing
through the company�s two-year first-look deal at the studio. The
first book in the Toxic City trilogy, London Eye, was published this
month by PYR. Proyas and Gotham Group are repped by CAA; Paglia by
Paradigm and attorney Ron Levin; Lebbon by the Howard Morhaim Literary
Agency.
Alex Proyas To Produce & Direct ABC Drama Project Penned By �Eureka�
Co-Creator
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
EXCLUSIVE: In his first foray into network television, Alex Proyas,
director of such features as I, Robot, The Crow, and Dark City, is set
to direct and executive produce Evolve, a drama project for ABC
written and executive produced by Jaime Paglia, co-creator/executive
producer of Syfy�s long-running series Eureka. Paglia�s sci-fi
background will come in handy for Evolve, which is based on the Toxic
City trilogy of novels by British Fantasy Award- and Bram Stoker
Award-winning author Tim Lebbon. Evolve is set two years after a
mysterious biological agent is released over Los Angeles when the city
is still deemed too toxic to inhabit and remains sealed off from the
rest of society. A small group of ordinary citizens outside the
quarantined zone, who do not believe the government�s story, embark on
a mission to uncover the truth of what happened to their family
members who were inside the affected area. What they discover is a
world where once-ordinary humans now have extraordinary abilities and
powerful government forces seek to destroy them.
ABC Studios is producing Evolve, with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Michael
Prevett and Jeremy Bell of the Gotham Group executive producing
through the company�s two-year first-look deal at the studio. The
first book in the Toxic City trilogy, London Eye, was published this
month by PYR. Proyas and Gotham Group are repped by CAA; Paglia by
Paradigm and attorney Ron Levin; Lebbon by the Howard Morhaim Literary
Agency.
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