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EXCLUSIVE: While Dean Georgaris and John Fox are awaiting determination connected their NBC aviator Key Witness, they person sold different bid task to Hulu.
Titled Close Protection, nan romanticist thriller, co-created by Georgaris and Fox and to beryllium written by Georgaris, is astir an American bodyguard protecting a British princess.
The premise echos an thought Kevin Costner had been processing for a sequel to his 1992 movie The Bodyguard, successful which his titular characteristic would’ve been protecting Princess Diana, that was scrapped aft her death.
It besides fits into a romantasy genre of bodyguard stories that had been heating up. Netflix is adapting Katherine Center’s novel The Bodyguard into a 2026 vacation rom-com titled Guarding Stars, which stars Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki.
The Brave creator Georgaris and longtime Davis Entertainment President Fox executive nutrient alongside Davis Entertainment laminitis John Davis. Universal Television, wherever Davis Entertainment has a deal, is nan studio.
Georgaris and Fox’s NBC play pilot Key Witness stars Emily Deschanel arsenic a trailblazing scientist who challenges nan section of criminology by shifting nan investigative attraction to nan unfortunate alternatively than conscionable nan perpetrator successful bid to uncover nan important clues that much accepted methods time off behind. It is believed to beryllium successful superior contention for a bid pickup astatine nan network.
Georgaris, who ecently served arsenic executive producer/showrunner connected nan Quantum Leap reboot, is repped by CAA and Robert Offer astatine Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
