News > Spielberg Developing Two New Fox Shows
December 11, 2006
Content taken from Coming Soon:
Steven Spielberg is taking an active role in the development of two projects set up at Fox, reports Variety.
Ed Burns and wife Christy Turling-ton are attached to write a drama set in the fashion world and based on an idea of Spielberg's; the second project, from writer Scott Gemmill, is an action series focused on time travel.
Both hourlong entries come from 20th Century Fox TV, as well as Spielberg's DreamWorks TV label. DreamWorks TV executives Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank are executive producers as well.
Spielberg came up with the concept for the untitled Burns project after attending New York's fashion week. The storyline revolves around five twenty-somethings with fashion jobs such as photographer, designer, makeup artist and model.
As for the Gemmill project, time-travel drama has a romantic storyline at its core.
The untitled show will revolve around two young American physicists in WWII who discover a way to pinch time and travel to the future. They wind up hopping between 2007 and the 1940s in order to aid the war effort -- but in the process begin to upset the space-time continuum.
Along the way, one of the physicists also enlists a woman in 2007 to help him adjust to culture shock, and the two develop a relationship.
Having executive produced the "Back to the Future" trilogy, Spielberg's also at work on a documentary on time travel.
Spielberg also just announced last week that he and DreamWorks TV would team with TNT to produce a six-hour miniseries based on Stephen King-Peter Straub novel "The Talisman."
