The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
TELEVISION
Idris Elba (WME) will star in and exec produce Hijack, an Apple TV+ limited series thriller set aboard an airplane, from writer
George Kay and director
Jim Field Smith.
Rachel Axler (WME) will adapt Dave Eggers’(CAA) novel The Every, a sequel to The Circle, as a series in development at HBO.
WandaVision writer Bobak Esfarjani (APA) signed an overall deal with FX. He’ll keep working as a writer and supervising producer on FX’s Kindred and Alien series while developing new projects.
John Slattery (Gersh)
has joined the sixth season of Paramount+ series
The Good Fight from co-creators Robert and Michelle King.
Matt Bomer (CAA) will star in Showtime’s limited series Fellow Travelers, based on a McCarthy-era Washington novel by Thomas Mallon. Ron Nyswaner is adapting the book.
Erika Christensen (Gersh) will star opposite Ramón Rodríguez (UTA) in ABC’s drama pilot Will Trent, based on Karin Slaughter’s crime novels, with Liz Heldens and Dan Thomsen writing the script.
Starz’s Power producers Raphael Jackson
and Damione Macedon
will showrun the fourth season of Disney+ and Nat Geo anthology series Genius, which focuses on Martin Luther King Jr.
and Malcolm X.
DIGITAL
Mike Judge (WME) and Greg Daniels (WME) will exec produce a Netflix adult animated comedy based on the offbeat card game Exploding Kittens, with the streaming giant also planning a mobile game tie-in.
The Flight Attendant creator Steve Yockey (ICM) will adapt DC comic Dead Boy Detectives and serve as showrunner on the HBO Max series from Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Productions.