Greg Nicotero, the masterful makeup effects guru and skilled director, has signed a two-year deal with AMC. Also featured in our latest round-up are details on two upcoming TV series: Houdini and Doyle and The Brothers Grimm.
Greg Nicotero: Reported by Deadline, Nicotero's new deal with AMC will allow him to continue executive producing and directing AMC's The Walking Dead, in addition to handling those duties on the companion series.
Nicotero has been an executive producer on The Walking Dead since season three and a director on the show since season two. This season, he's helmed the premiere ("No Sanctuary"), the mid-season premiere ("What Happened and What's Going On"), the 12th episode, "Remember", and the upcoming finale, "Conquer."
Houdini and Doyle: Deadline reveals that a 10-episode supernatural crime series titled Houdini and Doyle has been picked up by Fox. The show is a collaboration between David Titcher (The Librarian), David Shore (House), and David Hoselton (House). The series is "inspired by the unlikely real-life friendship between Sherlock Holmes author Sir Fox logo horizontalArthur Conan Doyle and illusionist Harry Houdini.
In Houdini And Doyle, two of the great characters of the 20th century — Houdini, master magician, escape artist and paranormal debunker, and Doyle, creator of the world’s greatest detective and a paranormal aficionado — grudgingly join forces to investigate crimes with a supernatural slant. Although they’re both rich, famous and brilliant, they’re the original odd couple, with Houdini believing in nothing, Doyle in everything."
Hoselton wrote the project based on a story he and Titcher came up with. Hoselton will also serve as the series' showrunner and will executive produce along with Titcher and Shore.
The Brothers Grimm: Deadline also reports that Ehren Kruger (2002's The Ring, Scream 3) has been set by Miramax to scribe a TV series adaptation of The Brothers Grimm 2005 feature film that Kruger wrote and Terry Gilliam directed:
"The new series will follow the swashbuckling adventures of brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, who discover startling mythology and supernatural stakes behind the folklore sweeping 19th century Europe."
Kruger and Daniel Bobker are executive producing the project.
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