Exclusive: Obb Pictures and Denver Broncos all-pro linebacker Von Miller are teaming on a half-hour animated comedy project titled Mars Martians, about the NFL’s first expansion team on Mars. Miller will voice the lead role and serve as an executive producer on the potential series, which is being written by Maxwell Theodore Vivian (The Cool Kids).
Mars Martians will follow Byron Bittman (Miller), the son of a beloved NFL superstar who has spent his life suffering under the expectation created by his father’s legacy and the beginning of his career plagued by disappointing production, fights with teammates, and embarrassing off-the-field issues. Now, having been relocated to Mars as part of the NFL’s latest expansion, Byron must adapt to a dysfunctional team, a washed-up coach with anger-management issues, and a front office led by team owner/governor of Mars Elon Musk (or a robot clone of Elon Musk...
Mars Martians will follow Byron Bittman (Miller), the son of a beloved NFL superstar who has spent his life suffering under the expectation created by his father’s legacy and the beginning of his career plagued by disappointing production, fights with teammates, and embarrassing off-the-field issues. Now, having been relocated to Mars as part of the NFL’s latest expansion, Byron must adapt to a dysfunctional team, a washed-up coach with anger-management issues, and a front office led by team owner/governor of Mars Elon Musk (or a robot clone of Elon Musk...
- 3/6/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Obb Pictures has optioned the life rights of Michael Clegg, the Catholic priest who became a prolific dealer of Mdma, a drug he would later dub Ecstasy as he saw it as a conduit to God. The company is teaming with 3 Arts Entertainment to develop a limited scripted TV series based on his story, with Obb’s Michael D. Ratner, Scott Ratner and Eric D. Cohen set to executive produce alongside 3 Arts’ Michael Rotenberg and Jonathan Berry, and Jay Shore and Jordan Kronick.
Obb’s Elias Tanner will lead development and produce alongside Shore and Kronick, who have done extensive interviews and have hours of recordings with the reclusive Clegg, who went from taking Mdma as a theraputic drug in the mid-1970s to giving it away for free as his personal mission to bring users closer to God. As the drug exploded in popularity in the...
Obb’s Elias Tanner will lead development and produce alongside Shore and Kronick, who have done extensive interviews and have hours of recordings with the reclusive Clegg, who went from taking Mdma as a theraputic drug in the mid-1970s to giving it away for free as his personal mission to bring users closer to God. As the drug exploded in popularity in the...
- 2/20/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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