Spike Lee has found his next project. The “BlacKkKlansman” Oscar winner is attached to an upcoming drama series about the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps that hails from writers Jalysa Conway and Rebecca Murga, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire. Though the project is still in the early stages of development at Amazon Studios, Lee has boarded the project as both a director and an executive producer.
The untitled show is described as a coming-of-age drama that follows students who serve in the Rotc as a way of paying tuition at an elite university. Both Conway, a writer on “9-1-1 Lone Star,” and Murga, a writer and director on “Swagger,” used the Rotc to fund their higher education before serving in the U.S. Army.
Conway and Murga will also executive produce the untitled Rotc show alongside Lee, Steven Jackson and Trevor Engelson (“Snowfall”) for his production banner Underground.
The untitled show is described as a coming-of-age drama that follows students who serve in the Rotc as a way of paying tuition at an elite university. Both Conway, a writer on “9-1-1 Lone Star,” and Murga, a writer and director on “Swagger,” used the Rotc to fund their higher education before serving in the U.S. Army.
Conway and Murga will also executive produce the untitled Rotc show alongside Lee, Steven Jackson and Trevor Engelson (“Snowfall”) for his production banner Underground.
- 11/17/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Spike Lee may have a multiyear film deal with Netflix lined up since last December, but his next project will be with Amazon Studios. Deadline reports Lee will direct and co-serve as executive producer on an upcoming coming-of-age Rotc drama for Amazon. And while the project currently has no title, its story is steeped in real-life experience.
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- 11/17/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Amazon Studios is developing a coming-of-age Rotc drama from writers Jalysa Conway (9-1-1: Lone Star) and Rebecca Murga (Swagger) — both military veterans — with Spike Lee set to direct and executive produce.
Written by Conway and Murga, The Untitled Rotc Project is set in the world of a rigorous Rotc military program at a major university, where students from all different walks of life push themselves to limits they never thought possible.
Conway and Murga executive produce with Lee, Steven Jackson as well as Trevor Engelson of Underground.
The project draws from Conway and Murga’s personal experiences. Both of them went through Rotc to help pay for college before embarking on active military duty. The two previously worked together in the Rideback TV Incubator, a residency program launched by Dan Lin’s Rideback and MRC where writers from diverse backgrounds get the opportunity to create their own shows.
Written by Conway and Murga, The Untitled Rotc Project is set in the world of a rigorous Rotc military program at a major university, where students from all different walks of life push themselves to limits they never thought possible.
Conway and Murga executive produce with Lee, Steven Jackson as well as Trevor Engelson of Underground.
The project draws from Conway and Murga’s personal experiences. Both of them went through Rotc to help pay for college before embarking on active military duty. The two previously worked together in the Rideback TV Incubator, a residency program launched by Dan Lin’s Rideback and MRC where writers from diverse backgrounds get the opportunity to create their own shows.
- 11/17/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Rideback, Dan Lin’s production company, and Mrc have announced the inaugural class of writers and mentors for their TV incubator.
The new TV writers residency program, which was launched in February, offers a paid, eight-month residency program to a group of writers who have each previously been staffed on series and want to create their own drama series for cable and streaming. The writers are paired with experienced showrunners and/or executive producers who act as mentors.
The goal of the new venture is to creatively and financially support TV writers from a wide variety of backgrounds and life experiences, and for each participant to generate a market-ready, straight-to-series project.
The first class writers of will be comprised of Iden Baghdadchi (“Marvel’s Agents of Shield”), Brian Buccellato, Jalysa Conway & Rebecca Murga, Desta Tedros Reff (“Sorry For Your Loss”), Jovan Robinson (“The Code”), Susan Cohen & Sydnie Suskind (“How to...
The new TV writers residency program, which was launched in February, offers a paid, eight-month residency program to a group of writers who have each previously been staffed on series and want to create their own drama series for cable and streaming. The writers are paired with experienced showrunners and/or executive producers who act as mentors.
The goal of the new venture is to creatively and financially support TV writers from a wide variety of backgrounds and life experiences, and for each participant to generate a market-ready, straight-to-series project.
The first class writers of will be comprised of Iden Baghdadchi (“Marvel’s Agents of Shield”), Brian Buccellato, Jalysa Conway & Rebecca Murga, Desta Tedros Reff (“Sorry For Your Loss”), Jovan Robinson (“The Code”), Susan Cohen & Sydnie Suskind (“How to...
- 4/25/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
The Rideback TV Incubator, the new inclusion-focused writers program launched in February by Dan Lin’s Rideback and Mrc, has selected its writers and mentors for the inaugural 2019 session.
The incubator, whose core mission is to creatively and financially support writers from different backgrounds as they create their own series for cable or streaming services, is an eight-month paid program aimed at TV writers who have previously been staffed on series and want to create their own dramatic show.
The goal is to create a market-ready, straight-to-series project, which if they go forward will be produced by Rideback with financing and other support by Mrc, which is providing funding for the program. Rideback and Mrc will jointly bring projects to market, with an option of adding other elements. The writers will be set as executive producer/writers and mentors as non-writing executive producers.
This year’s list of writers: Iden Baghdadchi...
The incubator, whose core mission is to creatively and financially support writers from different backgrounds as they create their own series for cable or streaming services, is an eight-month paid program aimed at TV writers who have previously been staffed on series and want to create their own dramatic show.
The goal is to create a market-ready, straight-to-series project, which if they go forward will be produced by Rideback with financing and other support by Mrc, which is providing funding for the program. Rideback and Mrc will jointly bring projects to market, with an option of adding other elements. The writers will be set as executive producer/writers and mentors as non-writing executive producers.
This year’s list of writers: Iden Baghdadchi...
- 4/25/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Two months after Mrc teamed with prolific producer Dan Lin and his production company Rideback for a TV incubator, the inaugural 2019 session has found its writers and mentors.
Eight writers (or writing teams) were selected for the inclusion-focused program from more than 200 applicants. The lucky scribes are Iden Baghdadchi (Agents of Shield), Brian Buccellato (The Flash, Batman), Jalysa Conway and Rebecca Murga (Grey’s Anatomy, The Letter), Desta Tedros Reff (Sorry for Your Loss), Jovan Robinson (The Code), Susan Cohen and Sydnie Suskind (How to Beat Your Sister-in-Law (at everything)), Robert Taylor (Spirit Riding Free) and ...
Eight writers (or writing teams) were selected for the inclusion-focused program from more than 200 applicants. The lucky scribes are Iden Baghdadchi (Agents of Shield), Brian Buccellato (The Flash, Batman), Jalysa Conway and Rebecca Murga (Grey’s Anatomy, The Letter), Desta Tedros Reff (Sorry for Your Loss), Jovan Robinson (The Code), Susan Cohen and Sydnie Suskind (How to Beat Your Sister-in-Law (at everything)), Robert Taylor (Spirit Riding Free) and ...
- 4/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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