Ordinary Joe
“Watchmen” and “Zoo” alum James Wolk has been cast in the lead role in NBC’s “Sliding Doors”-esque drama pilot “Ordinary Joe”. Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner (“House,” “Rise”) are writing and executive producing.
The story follows three parallel lives of Joe Kimbrough (Wolk) after he makes a pivotal choice at a crossroads in his life. The series asks the question of how different life might look if you made your decision based on love, loyalty or passion. [Source: Variety]
Killing Eve
Continuing its tradition of switching showrunners and head writers each season, Laura Neal (“Sex Education”) will take over those roles on the fourth season of BBC America’s acclaimed “Killing Eve” which goes into production later this year. BBC America handed the series an early renewal last month, well ahead of its third season premiere on April 26th. Suzanne Heathcote serves in the roles for the third season. [Source: The Wrap]
Kung Fu
Tzi Ma (“The Farewell”) and Kheng Hua Tan (“Marco Polo”) have been cast as series regulars in The CW’s pilot for the “Kung Fu” reimagining. The pair will play the parents of the protagonist, husband-and-wife restaurateurs whose secrets threaten to destroy their lives just as their estranged daughter returns.
Christina M. Kim pens the series about a young Chinese-American woman who drops out of college and goes on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. She returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption and uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community. [Source: Deadline]
Tokyo Vice
Odessa Young (“Assassination Nation”) and Ella Rumpf (“Raw”) are joining Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe in HBO Max’s forthcoming series “Tokyo Vice” from filmmaker Michael Mann. An adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s book, Mann is set to direct the pilot of the ten-episode series with a script by Tony-winning playwright J.T. Rogers.
Elgort plays Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption in the city’s neon-soaked underbelly where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem. Young plays an American expat turned skilled upscale club hostess, Rumpf will play a new and not so experienced hostess at the same club. [Source: Deadline]
Minx
HBO Max has handed out a pilot order for the half-hour comedy “Minx” which is set in 1970s Los Angeles. Ellen Rapoport is attached to write and executive produce alongside Paul Feig and Dan Magnante for Lionsgate Television. The story follows an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women. [Source: Variety]
