The Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman-produced Civil War spy drama series “The Gray House” will move forward and into production.
It marks the latest major project to land an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA which allows them to continue working. To get such an agreement, producers have agreed to the terms of the guild’s last counter-offer to the AMPTP. However if there are AMPTP connections to the project, then waivers won’t be granted.
The agreement was also allowed in this case despite the project already having international distribution through Paramount Global. It now joins 60 interim agreements handed out to movies and series since the industrial action began.
Others granted such an agreement include Apple TV+ series “Tehran,” Hallmark’s long-running “When Calls the Heart” series, and film’s like “The Watchers” along with several A24 films like “Mother Mary” and “I Dream Of Unicorns”.
The six-part series does not currently have a U.S. network or streamer attached and follows three women General Ulysses S. Grant credited as helping the North win the Civil War.
The trio – a Richmond Socialite and her daughter, a formerly enslaved African-American, and a courtesan, helped build the first successful female spy ring – risking their lives to operate right under the noses of the Confederate High Command.
Leslie Greif, Darrell Fetty, and Oscar-nominated John Sayles penned the script whilst Oscar-nominee Roland Joffe is directing. The project has already been filming in Eastern Europe.
Source: Deadline
