While still enjoying the success of Sleepy Hollow debut, Fox is ordering another risky show to go straight to series, with 13 episodes already scheduled. This time the network is betting on Travis Beacham’s Egyptian fantasy action-adventure shows titled Hieroglyph. The story “follows a notorious thief who is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah, navigating palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies, and even a few divine sorcerers.”
Beacham
wrote the pilot script and will executive produce the series alongside
Katherine Pope (New Girl and Peter Chernin (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
Repo Men director Miguel Sapochnik will helm the pilot and will also act as
executive producer. Production begins in early 2014 and Hieroglyph should debut
in the Fall.
Travis
Beacham co-wrote the first Pacific Rim and is currently co-writing the sequel
with Guillermo del Toro.
FOX
GIVES SERIES ORDER TO NEW ACTION-ADVENTURE DRAMA “HIEROGLYPH”
High-Concept,
Epic Series Features Ancient Egypt as Backdrop for Palace Intrigue, Quests for
Power and World of Magic, Gods and Goddesses
20th
Century Fox Television and Chernin Entertainment to Produce Series;
Screenwriter
Travis Beacham (“Pacific Rim”) to Write and Executive-Produce;
Miguel
Sapochnik (“Fringe”) to Direct Premiere Episode
Fox
Broadcasting Company (FOX) has given a 13-episode series order to HIEROGLYPH, a
fantastical action-adventure show produced by 20th Century Fox Television and
Chernin Entertainment, and executive-produced by Peter Chernin (NEW GIRL, “Rise
of the Planet of the Apes”), Katherine Pope (NEW GIRL) and Travis Beacham
(“Pacific Rim,” “Clash of the Titans”), who wrote the pilot script. Miguel
Sapochnik (“Repo Men,” “Fringe”) will serve as an executive producer on the
project and will direct the premiere episode. Production is scheduled to begin
in early 2014.
Set
in ancient Egypt, where fantasy and reality intertwined, HIEROGLYPH follows a
notorious thief who is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah, navigating
palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and even a few divine
sorcerers.
“We
wanted to do a show about deceit, sex, intrigue in the court and fantastical
goings-on – no better place to set that than ancient Egypt,” said Kevin Reilly,
Chairman of Entertainment for FOX. “Travis Beacham has an inventive mind, and
he has wrapped this all together in this intoxicating new drama.”
Based
on his original story idea, Travis Beacham co-wrote the screenplay with
director Guillermo Del Toro for this past summer’s sci-fi hit “Pacific Rim,”
which has grossed more than $400 million worldwide since its release in July.
Beacham also co-wrote the screenplay for the hit 2010 re-imagining of the
classic mythic adventure “Clash of the Titans,” directed by Louis Leterrier.
Beacham is currently writing the sequel to “Pacific Rim” for Legendary. He has
penned screenplays for the feature films “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain
Nemo” and a remake of the sci-fi classic, “The Black Hole.”
Chernin
Entertainment produces television programs and feature films. Its current
television slate includes FOX’s NEW GIRL. The company’s first feature film,
“Rise of Planet of the Apes,” was released in August 2011 and has grossed more
than $480 million at the worldwide box office. Chernin Entertainment is
currently producing the sequel, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” as well as
the sequel to its successful summer comedy, “The Heat.”
A
21st Century Fox company, Twentieth Century Fox Television is one of the
industry’s most prolific suppliers of primetime television programming and
entertainment content, including the blockbuster and Emmy Award- and Golden
Globe Award-winning “Modern Family,” the pop culture phenomenon and Golden
Globe Award-winning GLEE, the celebrated anthology series “American Horror
Story,” the hit comedies NEW GIRL and “How I Met Your Mother” and the longest
running primetime scripted series in the history of television, THE SIMPSONS.
The studio recently resurrected its Emmy Award-winning cult hit “Arrested
Development,” and its cable production division, Fox 21, is responsible for the
Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning “Homeland.” The studio’s newest
drama, SLEEPY HOLLOW, has garnered critical acclaim, high ratings and was the
first freshman show of the season to earn a renewal.
HIEROGLYPH
is produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Chernin Entertainment. The
series is created, written and executive-produced by Travis Beacham. Peter
Chernin and Katherine Pope, as well as Miguel Sapochnik, who will direct the
premiere episode, also serve as executive producers.
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