Looking
to extend their portfolio of original programming after canceling their nuclear
drama Manhattan, WGN America has given a pilot order to two promising new
shows.
The
first is the adaptation of Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra's Scalped, which WGN announced
back in 2014 but only now has given a pilot order.
Scalped
is described as "a modern-day crime story set in the world of a Native
American Indian reservation. It explores power, loyalty and spirituality in a
community led by the ambitious chief Lincoln Red Crow as he reckons with
Dashiell Bad Horse, who has returned home after years away from the
reservation."
Banshee's
Doug Jung wrote the script for the pilot of Scalped, which he will executive produce
alongside DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns.
Details
such as who will serve as showrunner are unknown, but according to insiders,
WGN is looking to get an all Native American cast.
As
for the second pilot order WGN has given, it went to the adaptation of Arkady
and Boris Strugatsky's sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic, which will count with a
script by Alien: Covenant's Jack Paglen, who will also serve as executive producer
alongside Game of Thrones and Thor: The Dark World's director Alan Taylor, who
is set to direct the pilot.
Roadside
Picnic "explores a
near-future world where aliens have come and gone, leaving humankind to explore
the wondrous and dangerous mysteries left behind as well as the societal
ramifications of their visit, as seen through the eyes of Red, a veteran
“stalker” who has made it his life to illegally venture into the once-inhabited
zone and scavenge the abandoned remains of the alien culture."
The 1971 novel was published in more than 20
countries, and has been adapted or used as inspiration several times, most noticeable
by acclaimed filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979 in Stalker, and oddly enough by
game developers GSC Game World and publisher THQ for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of
Chernobyl.
Source - THR
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