EXCLUSIVE: Van Helsing is popping crime fighter in a brand new collection in growth at CBS.
Jonathan Lee, the creator who’s behind Netflix and the BBC’s upcoming Lockerbie drama collection, is writing the eponymous collection, which is within the works on the Paramount-owned broadcaster.
It’s believed to have landed at CBS after a hotly contested public sale.
Elementary creator Rob Doherty is exec producing the mission alongside Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman beneath their take care of Lionsgate Tv, which is the studio.
It’s a up to date tackle the monster hunter; Dr. Abraham Van Helsing makes use of his uniquely inquisitive thoughts working alongside his ex, relentless FBI particular agent Mina Harker, to resolve New York Metropolis’s most harrowing circumstances, per the logline.
Van Helsing is the newest procedural mission within the works at CBS, which Deadline revealed earlier this week was creating one other adaptation of German detective drama collection Einstein.
Lee is the creator of books together with The Nice Mistake. Along with Lockerbie, he’s co-creating a restricted collection a couple of Las Vegas heist with Reservation Canines’ Sterlin Harjo for FX and adapting his guide Excessive Dive for the display screen with Eric Roth.
It’s the newest adaptation of Van Helsing right into a TV collection; Syfy beforehand made a fantasy horror collection based mostly on Bram Stoker’s creation, often called a vampire slayer, monster hunter and arch nemesis of Dracula, for 5 seasons starring Kelly Overton. EastSiders creator Equipment Williamson can also be creating a collection based mostly on Jason Henderson’s Alex Van Helsing trilogy, that includes 14-year previous descendent, with AGC Tv.
There was additionally the 2004 motion horror movie starring Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing alongside Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious, directed by Stephen Sommers.
Doherty is represented by UTA. Beverly is represented by UTA, Lenore Leisure Group, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Timberman is represented by UTA, Lenore Leisure Group, and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang. Lee is represented by CAA, 42, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.
