Fox threw its hat into the pilot ring this week, picking up three dramas including adaptations of Luther and Frankenstein as well as a comedy from The Mindy Project’s Charlie Grandy, Hollywood Reporter has said.
Frankenstein hails from Crisis creator Rand Ravichand Homeland’s Howard Gordon. The drama centers on Ray Pritchard, a morally corrupt retired cop, who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back from the dead.
Now younger and stronger, Pritchard will have to choose between his old temptations and his new sense of purpose
Ravich will pen the script and executive produce alongside Gordon and his 20th Century Fox Television-based Teakwood Lane banner. The drama landed at the network with a hefty put-pilot commitment.
Teakwood’s Hugh Fitzpatrick will co-exec produce.
The pilot order for Luther, meanwhile, is contingent on finding a cast. It hails from Luther creator , Neil Cross and counts star Idris Elba among its exec producers.
Cross will pen the Fox take, which is based on the BBC Worldwide Productions entry of the same name. The Fox take again centers on John Luther, a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can’t always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions. Elba is not attached for an on-screen role.
The drama, which came with another hefty put-pilot commitment, will be exec produced by Cherin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope as well as BBC’s Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner.
