Live-Action Series Based on Marvel Comics’ Silk in the Works at Sony Pictures TV

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content has put in development a limited series adaptation of Tom Cooper’s novel Florida Man, with Joel Edgerton set to star and executive produce. Quarry co-creator/exec producer Graham Gordy is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerMobile platform Quibi has ordered a Die Hart sequel from Kevin Hart and LOL Studios.

Will Thorne Staff WriterKevin Hart is coming back for more action at Quibi.The short-form content platform has renewed Hart’s comedy action series “Die Hart” for a second season, which will be called “Die Harter.”In the first season, which Quibi bills as its most-watched show of the summer, Hart played a version of himself trying to step out of the role of “comedic sidekick” by going to the world’s greatest action star school.

As we recently talked about with the unfortunate prequel series, “Ratched,” there are certain characters and films that don’t need to be explored further. Some who read this website would say that most films and iconic characters don’t need sequels or prequels, but I digress.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In a dazzling double deal, Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and Simon & Schuster US have made a seven-figure worldwide rights deal — a precedent for a debut fantasy novel — and Sony Pictures in turn has made a preemptive seven-figure screen rights deal for Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, the first of a much anticipated fantasy adventure novel series by A. F.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorMarie Lu’s bestselling YA sci-fi novel Warcross is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Emmy-winning producer John Cameron have optioned the rights to adapt the novel as a television series.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: German major Leonine is extending its long-term partnership with LA-based industry vet Thomas Augsberger and his Eden Rock Media banner via a multi-year consulting deal.Eden Rock Media will continue to advise Leonine on licensing U.S.-produced features and series for German-speaking territories and continue to work on third party TV acquisitions for Leonine’s English-language international sales division.The new agreement is the latest iteration of

Will Thorne Staff WriterAn anthology series on the history of the NFL is in the works.Game1, the sports content studio founded by Greg Economou, Basil Iwanyk and Michael Smith, is teaming with Gifford Media Group to adapt Frank Gifford’s bestselling memoir “The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever” into a series.Gifford, the late New York Giants Hall of Famer and “Monday Night Football” broadcaster, published the book in 2008, alongside Peter Richmond.The project

Could Park So Dam or Suzy make a Marvel debut? Only time would tell that but it seems like fans are in favour of their MCU debuts. The discussion about the Parasite star and the Start-Up actress appearing in a Marvel project stemmed from a feature report done by a US publication.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorWarnerMedia’s Crunchyroll and Adult Swim are teaming on Shenmue, a 13-episode original anime series based on the SEGA game franchise. The co-production will stream worldwide outside of Japan and mainland China on Crunchyroll and air on Adult Swim’s Toonami in the domestic U.S.Shenmue follows the journey of Ryo Hazuki.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVSony’ long-in-the-works “suite” of TV series based on Marvel characters controlled by the studio, is getting closer to reality.I hear Sony is in talks with Amazon to be the SVOD distributor of the high-profile package of shows, which includes multiple titles. The first title, which was identified by Sony Pictures TV about a year ago and had been in development at the studio, is Silk.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSilk could soon be the next Marvel character to get her own TV series, Variety has learned from sources.Variety has learned that Sony, which controls the rights to the Spider-Man universe, is developing a live-action series centered on Silk. Lauren Moon is in talks to write.

Peter White Television EditorLuke Wilson is to front a non-scripted series that documents the first few minutes of emergencies told through the lens of America’s 911 call takers for ABC.The Old School actor is hosting Emergency Call, which will launch on the network on September 28 at 10pm.Emergency Call is produced by 8Hours Television, the production company founded by MasterChef exec producer Adeline Ramage Rooney and former Zodiak Media US boss Jonny Slow.It based on a Belgian format,

It looks like we’re getting another Snyderverse. After Zack Snyder’s plans for “Justice League” and the extended DCEU fell apart after he left the film, fans’ hopes for a Snyderverse superhero universe were dashed.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Marisol Nichols, over the last few years, has been juggling the demands of being an actor on series including Riverdale with a side gig as an undercover agent in the fight against sex trafficking.The latter is now being turned into a television series after Sony Pictures Television optioned rights to her story.Nichols, who plays Hermione Lodge on the CW series, revealed her unusual side hustle in a long-form story in May’s Marie Claire.In the article,

Ed Meza @edmezavarSony Pictures Television Latin America is developing a new Colombian drama series inspired by popular hip hop band ChocQuibTown that will examine racism in Latin America and what it means to be Afro-Latino.Announced Sunday during the American Black Film Festival, series “Somos Los Prietos” (“We Are the Black Ones”) marks the first cross-company collaboration – referred to internally as “One Sony” – between SPT’s international production arm and Sony Music Latin, which counts

Nicolas Cage has played a number of strange characters over the decades. Who can forget Castor Troy in “Face/Off?” Or Ghost Rider pissing fire in the superhero sequel ‘Spirit of Vengeance?’ Then, of course, there’s whatever the hell he was doing in “Season of the Witch.” But we can safely say that his upcoming role in the Amazon series “Highfire” might be his weirdest yet.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO is developing drama series Sphere based on Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, from Westworld executive producer/writer Denise Thé, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s Kilter Films (Westworld), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Warner Bros.