Hilary Swank is to star in and exec produce a drama pilot for ABC that comes from Spotlight and Stillwater director Tom McCarthy. The Away and Boy’s Don’t Cry star will play a star journalist who m…
star will play a star journalist who moves to Alaska for a fresh start after a career-killing misstep, and finds redemption personally and professionally joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage.
The project, which is one of the most high-profile network drama development projects of the season, will be written, directed and exec produced by Tom McCarthy through his Slow Pony production company. McCarthy is coming off the back of Matt Damon-fronted featureFormer Fox 21 Television Studios boss Bert Salke, will exec produce through this Co-lab21banner.
The drama marks McCarthy’s first broadcast network project. He previously wrote the pilot of Showtime’s Roger Ailes miniseries, 13 Reasons Why. Similarly, it marks Swank’s live-action return to broadcast television for the first time in over 20 years. The actor, who starred in FX’sSlow Pony’s Melissa Wells will exec produce alongside Anchorage Daily News President and CEO Ryan Binkley and reporter Kyle Hopkins.
The off-cycle pilot order comes after ABC made decisions earlier this summer about the status of its last set of pilots, passing on
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