New Fox show announced
Both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety had stories today about the new one-hour drama that I’m developing for Fox with Jordan Mechner, the writer of Prince of Persia.
The show is about two guys, business partners, who work as private military contractors. They run their own startup firm. Week-to-week, they find themselves in the most dangerous parts of the world — Iraq, Africa, South America — trying to complete short-term contract jobs such as rescuing hostages, guarding facilities, or protecting diplomats. Of course, being a drama, things never go as smoothly as planned.
The idea sprang from research Jordan was doing about military corporations, the mercenaries of the 21st century. It could have been a feature, but the more we talked about it, the more excited we got about developing it for television. The show is sort of a procedural (the term for all the CSI’s and such), but instead of trying to find a killer, our heroes are trying to complete a mission.
Television moves fast, but as I have updates, I’ll try to keep them posted.
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October 4th, 2004 at 2:37 pm
I really hope you guys don’t sugar-coat what mercenaries do.
October 4th, 2004 at 4:16 pm
I would like to discuss this project with you. Please feel free to contact me if you have any interest in talking. I think my partner and I may be able to add real value to this project.
October 4th, 2004 at 4:49 pm
Congrats. Sounds exciting. There should be a lot of great stories to tell and some interesting characters to write.
October 5th, 2004 at 8:56 am
Congratulations on the project! It sounds pretty cool - I hope we all get to see it on the small screen! Please keep us posted.
-DC
October 5th, 2004 at 2:18 pm
That sounds like a great idea for a show, particularly in today’s political climate. If you can, you should try to interview some real mercenaries and their white-collar corporate security counterparts. They’re some very strange dudes.
Are you going to mirror the real world and have scads of white guys from southern Africa in the show? If not, they make great adversaries.
October 20th, 2004 at 8:32 pm
The A-Team for the 2000’s. Cool.
October 21st, 2004 at 3:20 pm
october 24 2004
Believe it or not…I actually submitted resumes to 30 job sites for Halliburton in Iraq.
I figured with my own army background, extensive work in construcion and project research…and two degrees…they’d have no problem hiring me.
Talk about a greta experience for a writer.
Out in the trenches…back to the blank page.
Still haven’t heard back from Halliburton.
Don’t know what’s going on.
Oh well…
MARK
MTS1160@HOTMAIL.COM