Thursday, May 23, 2013

Studios drool over sci-fi drama but will Spielberg take it to TV?

Director Steven Spielberg, Jury President of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, arrives for the screening of the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" in competition during the 66th Cannes Film Festival By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Mickey Fisher, an unknown and unsigned writer until recently, has film studios drooling over his script "Extant" for weeks. There's just one twist: it's not a film script. Fisher wrote "Extant" as a TV pilot. It's a one-hour sci-fi drama about John and Molly Watts and their son, a human-like robot named Ethan. Molly, the space-traveling wife, is also pregnant with a baby that is part human and part alien. The family intrigue deepens in subsequent episodes. Multiple agencies sought to sign the writer after reading the script, and WME won out. ...








via TV News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/studios-drool-over-sci-fi-drama-spielberg-tv-003942282.html

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