Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jan 16, 2014 19:25:36 GMT -6
Former HBO entertainment president Sue Naegle has come on board Outcast, the exorcism drama project from The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman.
In his pilot writing debut, Kirkman penned Outcast on spec for The Walking Dead international partner Fox International Channels, which developed the project internally before taking it out.
I hear Naegle, who was still at HBO at the time, read the script and recommended it to her colleague Kary Antholis who ended up buying it.
Naegle has a relationship with Kirkman. She is known for her love for supernatural and horror fare and is a fan of Kirkman’s graphic novel The Walking Dead.
As an HBO development executive, she went aggressively after the property and had talks with Kirkman. HBO got very close to a Walking Dead deal, which was championed by Naegle. It ultimately didn’t make, and AMC snagged the comic for would be become the biggest series on television. But based on Naegle’s passion for The Walking Dead and her original interest in Outcast, I hear she was approached by FIC about joining as a an executive producer alongside Kirkman and David Alpert of Circle of Confusion. Based on Kirkman/Skybound’s recently announced comic book by the same name, Outcast follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a journey to find answers but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.
In his pilot writing debut, Kirkman penned Outcast on spec for The Walking Dead international partner Fox International Channels, which developed the project internally before taking it out.
I hear Naegle, who was still at HBO at the time, read the script and recommended it to her colleague Kary Antholis who ended up buying it.
Naegle has a relationship with Kirkman. She is known for her love for supernatural and horror fare and is a fan of Kirkman’s graphic novel The Walking Dead.
As an HBO development executive, she went aggressively after the property and had talks with Kirkman. HBO got very close to a Walking Dead deal, which was championed by Naegle. It ultimately didn’t make, and AMC snagged the comic for would be become the biggest series on television. But based on Naegle’s passion for The Walking Dead and her original interest in Outcast, I hear she was approached by FIC about joining as a an executive producer alongside Kirkman and David Alpert of Circle of Confusion. Based on Kirkman/Skybound’s recently announced comic book by the same name, Outcast follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a journey to find answers but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.