Fox Buys Wyatt Earp Western From Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, Dating Comedy

Fox is joining the Western trend this development season by having an untitled drama project from producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who co-authored this summer time’s large-screen Western having a sci-fi twist Cowboys & Aliens. Compiled by The Shield alum John Hlavin, the project is referred to like a Western that informs the roots of Wyatt Earp, chronicling both well-known occurrences in the existence like the Gunfight in the OK Corral and lesser-known particulars of Earp and the siblings getting order to some lawless frontier. UTA-repped Hlavin, that has an element Western, The Gunslinger, in development at Warner Bros, introduced the project to Kurtzman and Orci. The 3 will executive produce with Louise Kadin for twentieth century Fox TV and Kurtzman and Orci’s K/O Paper Items. This marks K/O’s go back to Fox, where the organization had two high-profile drama aircraft pilots last season, Locke & Key and Exit Strategy, neither which were acquired to series. This really is Kurtzman and Orci’s second purchase this year, following a script plus penalty commitment at CBS to have an Anna Fricke-written drama in regards to a congresswoman advocate. The Hlavin project joins a slew of Westerns in development in the broadcast systems. NBC comes with an untitled Kerry Ehrin project occur the 1880s, that is created by Sean Hayes’ Hazy Mills ABC has Ron Moores Hangtown, occur the first 1900 and David Zabels Gunslinger. Furthermore, TNT lately gave a cast-contingent pilot order to Bruce C. McKenna and Danny Cannons Gateway, occur the 1880s. Around the comedy side, Fox has bought The Great Existence, just one-camera comedy project by stand-up comedian/author Carlos Kotkin and author Justin Sternberg (The Paul Reiser Show), that is being created by 20th TV and the other studio pod, Chernin Entertainment. Loosely according to Kotkin’s approaching book Please God Allow It To Be Herpes, an accumulation of short tales concerning the frequently awkward dating situations Kotkin finds themself in, the comedy is all about a man whose ongoing optimism always lands him in unpredicted and humorous setbacks. Chernin, Katherine Pope and Kaira Mendelsohn of Circle of Confusion, which handles Kotkin, are executive creating. Steinberg is by using WME.