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Amazon Picks Up del Toro’s “Carnival Row” Pilot

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Guillermo del Toro may soon be bringing the big top to the small screen…

Amazon has picked up Carnival Row, the pilot from the 51-year-old Mexican film and television producer, director and screenwriter.

Guillermo del Toro

Carnival Row stems from a major development deal Amazon Studios inked in early 2015 for the project, a television series version of Travis Beacham’s cult 11-year-old supernatural feature spec script A Killing on Carnival Row.  

Amazon at the time ordered three scripts from the project, to be co-written by The 4400 co-creator Rene Echeverria, del Toro, Beacham and Peter Cameron.

Echevarria wrote the pilot script, which is going to production, and serves as showrunner. del Toro, Beacham and Echevarria executive produce alongside Gary Ungar.

A Killing on Carnival Row is set in the future in a city called the Burgue, which looks a lot like 18th Century London. It is inhabited by humans and other creatures, and a serial killer is on the loose.

The Amazon pilot order caps an 11-year journey for Beacham, who originally sold his feature script to New Line and Koppelson Entertainment as a spec in 2005.

del Toro and Neil Jordan flirted with the project while it was at New Line and then, following New Line’s absorption by Warner Bros., Arnold and Anne Kopelson tried shopping it to studios with Immortals helmer Tarsem Singh attached.

The project stems from Amazon Studios; Carnival Row is co-produced with Legendary Television.

Echevarria Signs Premium Two-Script Deal with Legendary Television

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René Echevarria has landed a legendary contract…

The Cuban American screenwriter and film producer has signed a premium two-script deal with Legendary Television.

René Echevarria

No concepts have been set yet, but Deadline.com reports that Echevarria may explore titles from Legendary’s movie library.

The Primetime Emmy-nominated veteran showrunner has a background in leading big properties to the small screen, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Echevarria also served as the executive producer/showrunner on Fox’s Terra Nova and executive produced MTV’s Teen Wolf.

Additionally, he co-created USA Network’s The 4400 and worked on Medium and Castle.

Echevarria to Executive-Produce CBS’ “Intelligence” Pilot

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René Echevarria will be putting his magic touch on a new CBS project…

The Cuban American producer/writer has joined CBS’ drama pilot Intelligence as an executive producer/showrunner.

Rene Echevarria

Echevarria will be joining forces with creator/executive producer Michael Seitzman in running the series for ABC Studios and CBS Television Studios.

Based on John Dixon’s unpublished book Dissident, Intelligence, which stars Josh Holloway, is centered at U.S. Cyber Command and focuses on a unit that has been created around one agent with a very special gift — a microchip has been implanted in his brain allowing him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

In addition to Holloway, the pilot will feature James Martinez as a “muscular federal investigator.”

The Emmy-nominated Echevarria’s credits include serving as executive producer/showrunner on Fox’s Terra Nova. He also co-created USA’s The 4400 and worked on the Jessica Alba-starrer Dark Angel, Teen Wolf, Medium and Castle.