Deadline Hollywood Daily: ABC Developing High-Concept Drama From Brad Pitt’s Plan B & Brillstein Entertainment
In a late buy, ABC has put in development The Returned, a serialized drama produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and ABC Studios. Written by Aaron Zelman (AMC's The Killing), The Returned is based on the debut novel by Jason Mott, which is slated to be published next September by Mira Books. The rights to the book sparked a bidding war among several production companies and studios. Brillstein and Plan B were able to land the property in their first teaming together, and the project was taken to ABC Studios where Brillstein is based. Executive producing alongside Zelman are JoAnn Alfano and Jon Liebman from BEP and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner from Plan B.
The Returned is one of several projects BEP has set up this season, including two with CSI creator Anthony Zuiker: soap Tabooat ABC and an Alice In Wonderland sequel at NBC. Zelman is repped by UTA and Circle of Confusion.
Publisher's Marketplace
Jason Mott's THE RETURNED, about a family caught in the center of a worldwide event in which people's deceased loved ones are returning to life, to ABC with Aaron Zelman (THE KILLING, DAMAGES) writing and Plan B Entertainment (TREE OF LIFE) and Brillstein Entertainment (RINGER) producing, by Sean Daily at Hotchkiss and Associates on behalf of Michelle Brower at Folio Literary Management.