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Amazon has officially greenlit a brand new Prime Video original series based on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Co-produced by Paramount and Skydance Television, the 10-episode first season will star John Krasinski as the notoriously eager CIA analyst.
According to a press release, the SVOD exclusive will film in the US, Europe and Africa, and will recruit a slew of executive producers including Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, Mace Neufeld, and Lindsey Springer. Each one-hour episode was written by Roland and developed alongside Cuse, following Ryan “as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.”
In other news…
Amazon’s Prime Video has acquired Irish writer Mark McDevitt’s 2015 Black List biopic script Ida Tarbell. Produced by Tom Drumm of Think Tank Management & Production, the plot follows Tarbell as she uncovers the truth behind the Rockefeller oil empire and Standard Oil. [Deadline]
Twitter, who will be live-streaming 10 Thursday night NFL games this season, are looking to Apple TV as a new outlet for its Twitter tvOS app. The social media platform has ramped up its efforts since April to secure a plethora of live streaming deals in order to engage more customers. [Investopedia]
USA Network’s popular (6) Emmy-nominated drama series Mr. Robot has been renewed for a third season, which will air sometime in 2017. Created by Sam Esmail and starring Rami Malek, the hit broadcast series also has an existing SVOD pact with Amazon. [Deadline]
Anna Paquin (True Blood) has been cast opposite Sarah Gadon and Zachary Levi in Netflix’s forthcoming Alias Grace. The six-hour miniseries from Sarah Polley and Noreen Halpern’s Halfire Entertainment was inspired by Grace Marks’ historical murder conviction as depicted in Margaret Atwood’s novel. [Deadline]
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