Former Walking Dead Producer Frank Darabont Evolves New TNT Drama

Frank Darabont Nearly six several weeks after he was fired because the executive producer of AMC's The Walking Dead, Frank Darabont is busy creating a new drama project - this time around at rival TNT. TNT has given an airplane pilot order to L.A. Noir, that takes a glance within the seedy underbelly of La cops and villains within the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, the heyday of L.A. noir and scams (like the Black Dahlia). Darabont will write and direct the pilot. The project is dependant on the John Buntin book L.A. Noir: The Struggle for that Soul of America's Most Sexy City, which concentrates on the fight between gangster Mickey Cohen and legendary L.A. police chief William Parker. "Noir is really a passion of mine, and so i feel fortunate to explore a task that talks within the hardboiled vernacular," Darabont states. "John Buntin's superb book, though non-fiction, is our touchstone and inspiration for that tales we'll be telling, weaving fiction through the details, and details through the fiction. It provides elements which are irresistible, a large canvas with endless options. The aim would be to deliver around the tone the title L.A. Noir promises: a wise, gritty, authentic, period noir drama." Darabont would executive produce L.A. Noir together with longtime friend Mike P Luca (The Social Networking), while Elliot Webb (Tall Time Tales) can also be attached being an professional producer. It might mark the very first TV work for Darabont since he left The Walking Dead at the end of This summer under mysterious conditions. The exit coincided with reviews that Dead was battling with budget issues, but AMC professionals elected to not elaborate beyond an argument saying thanks to the director for his contributions towards the show. Darabont's title ongoing to look within the credits throughout Season Two, but he was changed as showrunner by Glen Mazzara. Darabont has additionally never openly addressed his departure. Darabont's hefty features resume includes The Shawshank Redemption, The Eco-friendly Mile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. P Luca's credits likewise incorporate the current feature Moneyball. "The storyline of L.A. Noir is inspired by a remarkably dramatic period within the good reputation for La,Inch states Michael Wright, executive v . p ., mind of programming for TNT, The best spinner's and Turner Classic Movies. "This project is really a sweeping tale from the fight for that soul from the city which was fought between your forces from the LAPD and also the West Coast mob." L.A. Noir joins a TNT development slate which includes the medical drama pilot Chelsea General, from David E. Kelley and Sanjay Gupta the Western pilot Gateway, starring Donal Logue, Keith Carradine and Anthony LaPaglia and also the drama pilot Scent from the Missing, starring Tricia Helfer, Summer time Glau and Gerald McRaney. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!