ABC Nabs Shawn Ryan/Karl Gajdusek Drama With Pilot Production Commitment

EXCLUSIVE: Within the latest fast and large purchase this development season, a drama in the Shield creator Shawn Ryan and have author Karl Gajdusek just arrived at ABC having a hefty pilot production commitment. The project, entitled The Last Measure, was pitched towards the systems on Friday using the deal at ABC closing in principal last evening, though final points continue to be ironed out. The new sony Pictures TV, where Ryan relies by having an overall deal, is creating. The Last Measure is referred to like a large swing and massive in scope. It's a thriller occur the long run once the country is extremely fractured and involves the crew of the U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted after disregarding a purchase to shoot nuclear missiles. They escape to some NATO listening outpost where they openly declare themselves to become the earth's littlest nuclear nation with 24 nuclear warheads. The show will explore the society the fugitives create, the natives they meet and just how what they have done affects the group and it is oneness. "Additionally, it enables us to look at what's going on within this country in micro form," Ryan stated. The project joined together when Marney Hockman, Ryan's executive at his MiddKid Prods company, introduced in Gajdusek, whom she'd been going after for a few years. Ryan and Gajdusek then emerged using the idea for that Last Measure and made the decision to create it together. This is actually the second project from Ryan, repped by WME and also the Shuman Co, to land a significant deal this development season, his first at The new sony TV. His collaboration with Criminal Minds creator Simon Mirren, a criminal offense procedural, was lately bought by CBS having a put pilot commitment. Gajdusek, repped by Verve and Management 360, is definitely an in-demand feature author. He lately did production focus on the Liam Neeson film Unknown, authored the approaching Trespass, starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage along with the adaptation of graphic novel Oblivion for Universal that Frederick Kosinski will direct and Tom Cruise will star in, and thriller Last Times Of American Crime with Mike Worthington mounted on star. The scribe, who began off in television on Dead Much Like Me, is presently spinning Viking at Working Title with Baltasar Kormakur mounted on direct.