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AMC Global Media’s 2026 upfront provided updates connected 3 high-profile AMC Studios bid successful development, Bannerman, Point Break and nan first installment successful nan caller Great American Stories anthology, The Grapes of Wrath.
‘Bannerman’
AMC Studios has opened a writers room for Bannerman, a bid for AMC and AMC+ based connected nan celebrated Bannerman spy novels by bestselling writer John Maxim.
The workplace announced successful January 2023 that it had acquired nan authorities to Maxim’s books to create for TV pinch Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) and Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead Universe), who has had a longtime woody astatine AMC Studios, attached to executive produce, and Brian Witten co-executive producing. Black is besides group to direct.
Craig Silverstein has since travel connected committee arsenic creator and showrunner and is overseeing nan writers room. He antecedently was writer, executive shaper and showrunner connected nan AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spies and Pantheon, and astir precocious was executive shaper and co-showrunner on Percy Jackson and nan Olympians for Disney+.
The Bannerman series, which spans 5 books, centers astir charismatic ex-spy John Bannerman. Retired from that gritty and suspenseful world, Bannerman finds himself surviving successful a quiet suburban municipality but is soon pulled backmost into nan life he’s trying to escape.
‘Point Break’
As Deadline reported exclusively successful December, AMC Studios is processing a TV bid based connected nan 1991 movie Point Break that starred Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. The workplace is moving pinch Alcon Entertainment, which produced nan original deed film, connected nan project, which AMC landed successful a competitory situation.
The project, written and executive produced by Dave Kalstein (Treadstone), has been progressing, and, if each goes well, AMC expects to beryllium successful accumulation connected Season 1 successful Australia later this twelvemonth for a 2027 premiere.
The communicative picks up 25 years aft nan ending of nan movie and is centered connected a caller vulnerable heist unit pinch ties to nan notorious Ex-Presidents gang.
‘Great American Stories’
At past year’s Upfront Content Showcase, AMC announced an anthology series, Great American Stories, starting pinch The Grapes of Wrath, based connected nan John Steinbeck novel, arsenic nan first installment.
At nan time, Rolin Jones was group to accommodate The Grapes of Wrath and activity pinch different imaginative talent connected consequent seasons, and Mark Johnson (AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe) came connected committee to oversee nan franchise. Both are nether deals pinch AMC Studios.
Jones, who has been engaged penning and showrunning AMC Studios’ The Vampire Lestat, which premieres June 7 connected AMC and AMC+, will now beryllium co-writing The Grapes of Wrath pinch Brett C. Leonard (Fear nan Walking Dead), moving pinch Johnson. Jill Gillette is an executive shaper on The Grapes of Wrath alongside nan trio.
The scheme is for The Grapes of Wrath to commencement accumulation by nan extremity of nan twelvemonth and debut successful 2027.
Per AMC, Great American Stories is an anthology bid wherever each play “will beryllium devoted to a different celebrated work, humanities moment, aliases individual communicative celebrating and highlighting nan American spirit.”
