‘Cop Land’ Series From James Mangold & Robert Levine In Works
EXCLUSIVE: James Mangold is revisiting the film that catapulted him into the highest ranks of Hollywood filmmakers, 1997’s Cop Landheadlined by Sylvester Stallone. In his return to tv after virtually a decade, Mangold is ready to co-write, direct and government produce a sequence adaptation of his film, from Paramount Television Studios and Miramax Television.
Co-written and government produced by The Old Man co-creator Robert Levinewho will function showrunner, the crime drama was not too long ago taken out and has already garnered 4 affords, sources mentioned.
Cop Landwhich might mark Mangold’s first sequence as a author, stems from the general deal the five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker signed with Paramount Pictures in September, a month after Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount Global. The challenge’s origins date again to conversations Mangold had with Jonathan Glickman following Glickman’s appointment as Miramax CEO two years in the past about adapting the title from the studio’s film library to tv.
Under Paramount’s post-merger construction, Paramount Pictures co-chair Dana Goldberg additionally oversees Paramount Television Studios, a transfer designed to facilitate communication between the film and the streaming-focused TV studio run by Matt Thunell, permitting expertise emigrate between the 2. (Some of Paramount’s high-profile expertise offers made for the reason that merger, together with pacts with the Duffer Brothers and Issa Raespan each movie and TV.)
New Paramount has been within the James Mangold enterprise since day one. The first huge characteristic challenge announced hours after the merger closed was High SideMangold’s reteam with Timothée Chalamet following their current collaboration on A Complete Unknown, which Paramount gained in a bidding warfare.
The total characteristic take care of Mangold adopted, and conversations below that pact led to Cop Land. Mangold wrote and directed the well-reviewed movie, which starred Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro alongside Stallone, a formidable forged for a filmmaker with solely a small indie film, Heavybelow his belt till then. Distributed by Miramax, Cop Land grossed $63.7 million on a $15 million funds.
This would mark the highest-profile Paramount-Miramax TV collaboration so far. Paramount owns 49% of the indie studio, a co-venture with Qatar’s beIN Media Group. Mining the Miramax library is a spotlight for Paramount TV Studiostogether with pursuing Paramount movie IP and creating authentic concepts.
Since its launch, Paramount TV Studios has bought a number of high-profile initiatives with straight-to-series orders, each to sibling Paramount+ (9/12) and out of doors streamers (The Corrections to Netflix.)
Cop Land starred Stallone because the sheriff of a small New Jersey city who comes into battle with the corrupt New York City law enforcement officials who reside there. The forged additionally included Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport, Annabella Sciorra, Noah Emmerich and Cathy Moriarty.
Mangold’s characteristic directing credit additionally embrace Girl, Interrupted, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, in addition to the Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominee loganBest Picture nominee Ford v. Ferrari and Best Picture and Best Director nominee A Complete Unknown.
In TV, he most not too long ago government produced the USA sequence Damnationwhich streamed on Netflix. He additionally government produced CBS’ Zoo in addition to CBS’ vegas and NYC 22 and ABC’s Men In Treeswhose pilots he directed. Mangold is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Levine was co-creator and government producer on the FX sequence The Old Man starring Jeff Bridges. He additionally created and government produced Starz’s Black Sails and labored on Jericho, Harpers Island, Human Target and Touch. Levine is repped by WME and TFC Management.
