Muscle Shoals, a drama based on the life of Rick Hall, producer of the legendary Muscle Shoals sound, has sold to ABC for development under a straight-to-series model, Deadline has learned. The project hails from Global Road Entertainment, Johnny Depp and Christie Dembrowski’s Infinitum Nihil, Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced, and Joshua D. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin’s City Entertainment. The drama has been in development at Global Road since 2016.
Emmy-nominated Bettina Gilois (Bessie) is writing the drama based on Hall’s life as chronicled in his autobiography The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame and the acclaimed Sundance documentary Muscle Shoals.
Depp, Dembrowski and Bobby DeLeon of Infinitum Nihil are executive producing along with Jason Felts, Justin Berfield and Rene Rigal at Branson’s Virgin Produced; and City Entertainment’s Maurer and Witlin. Nancy Wilson of the seminal group Heart serves as Executive Music...
Emmy-nominated Bettina Gilois (Bessie) is writing the drama based on Hall’s life as chronicled in his autobiography The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame and the acclaimed Sundance documentary Muscle Shoals.
Depp, Dembrowski and Bobby DeLeon of Infinitum Nihil are executive producing along with Jason Felts, Justin Berfield and Rene Rigal at Branson’s Virgin Produced; and City Entertainment’s Maurer and Witlin. Nancy Wilson of the seminal group Heart serves as Executive Music...
- 4/26/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Branson, Jason Felts and Justin Berfield’s Virgin Produced, City Entertainment’s Joshua D Maurer and Alixandre Witlin and Johnny Depp and Christi Dembrowski’s Infinitum Nihil will produce the drama series inspired by Greg Camalier’s Sundance 2013 documentary.
Camalier will produce the TV adaption of Muscle Shoals, named after the influential recording studio set up in Alabama in 1969.
The film will explore the segregated south through its characters, cultural and political history and southern gothic settings
Virgin Produced evp of production Rene Rigal brought the project to the company and will oversee with Infinitum Nihil’s Bobby DeLeon.
Camalier will produce the TV adaption of Muscle Shoals, named after the influential recording studio set up in Alabama in 1969.
The film will explore the segregated south through its characters, cultural and political history and southern gothic settings
Virgin Produced evp of production Rene Rigal brought the project to the company and will oversee with Infinitum Nihil’s Bobby DeLeon.
- 7/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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