http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/hbo-developing-texas-drama-from-larry-mcmurtry-diana-ossana-morgan-spurlock/HBO Developing Texas Drama
From
Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
& Morgan Spurlock
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
Friday February 11, 2011 @ 6:00pm PST EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning
Brokeback Mountain writers
Larry McMurtry and
Diana Ossana have teamed with
Super Size Me documentary filmmaker
Morgan Spurlock for a drama series project set up at
HBO. The project, described as a big-canvas Texas political drama, is based on an idea by Spurlock, who, along with manager-producer
Larry Shuman, approached McMurtry and Ossana. McMurtry and Ossana have written a script for the project, which they are executive producing for
Fox TV Studios. Spurlock and Shuman are executive producing through their shingles,
Warrior Poets and the
Shuman Co., respectively, with McMurtry and Ossana's manager
Adam Shulman, Jennifer Berman and Warrior Poets'
Jeremy Chilnick also expected to produce.
On the feature side, McMurtry and Ossana are writing two major period Westerns for
Scott Free,
The Color of Lightning for
Ridley Scott to direct at
20th Century Fox, and an adaptation of
S. C. Gwynne's book
Empire of the Summer Moon for
Warner Bros. with
Crazy Heart helmer
Scott Cooper attached to direct. McMurtry won a Pulitzer for his novel
Lonesome Dove, which was made into a hit miniseries.
UTA-repped McMurtry and Ossana adapted the Lonesome Dove prequel
Comanche Moon into a 6-episode miniseries and have developed a couple of TV projects at the broadcast networks. Spurlock, repped
CAA and the
Arlook Group, exec produced and starred in the docu series
30 Days.TV Editor Nellie Andreeva - tip her
here.