AGC Television will produce and sell the series, adapted from Christopher Golden’s best-selling supernatural thrillers.
, will be published next year. Golden, who worked on the screenplay for the 2019The titular Ben Walker character is a self-described “weird s**t expert” working for a secret arm of the Department of Defense to investigate newly discovered phenomena—both natural and supernatural — to ensure these bizarre occurrences cannot be used as weapons against the U.S. - and to find out if they can be used as weapons by the U.S.. His investigations lead him on globe-trotting adventures.
The deal was negotiated by Rob Carlson at UTA on behalf of the Spierig Brothers, and by Diaz, AGC’s VP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa, and VP of Scripted Television Matt Bankston on behalf of AGC.War of thelimited series, a re-imagining of the H.G. Wells sci-fi classic starring Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern. Fox Network Groups is a co-producer and co-financier on the project.
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