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EXCLUSIVE: FX is developing That Texas Blood, a play bid from Jim Mickle and E.L. Katz, based connected nan critically acclaimed Image Comics bid from Chris Condon and Jacob Phillips.
Billed arsenic Cormac McCarthy meets John Carpenter, That Texas Blood is a neo-noir Western pursuing Sheriff Joe Bob Coates of Ambrose County, Texas, who questions his spot successful an progressively convulsive world erstwhile a man returns location pursuing nan abrupt disappearance of his brother, causing a spiral down into a past filled pinch treachery and blood.
Mickle and Katz will constitute and exec produce, pinch Mickle besides directing nan show from 20th Television. The task reunites nan duo pursuing their activity connected Mickle’s lauded series Hap and Leonard, which ran for 3 seasons connected Sundance TV/AMC and concluded arsenic nan highest-rated original bid successful Sundance TV history.
Other executive producers on That Texas Blood include Michael Waldron and Adam Fasullo via Anomaly Pictures, which is nether an wide woody astatine 20th, arsenic good arsenic Adam Fishbach, Jeremy Platt, Linda Moran, and writer Condon. Jacob Phillips is serving arsenic co-executive producer.
Known for his activity arsenic director, showrunner, and writer of Netflix’s imagination drama Sweet Tooth, which won 8 Emmys from 30+ nominations, Mickle is presently successful accumulation connected a live-action Gundam movie, based connected nan internationally renowned anime, for Netflix and Legendary. He’s directing from his ain script, pinch Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo starring nan cast. Also known for films for illustration TIFF Midnight Madness winner Stake Land, We Are What We Are and Cold successful July, he is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Katz is an acclaimed genre writer and filmmaker whose credits see nan cult hit Cheap Thrills, starring Pat Healy, which won some nan Audience Award and Best First Feature astatine nan 2014 SXSW Film Festival. Most recently, he wrote and directed nan scary film Azrael, starring Samara Weaving, for IFC and Shudder. On nan tv side, Katz directed nan aviator and served arsenic an executive shaper connected Peacock’s Teacup, produced by James Wan’s Atomic Monster. He besides served arsenic co-executive shaper and producing head connected Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor and directed and produced each section of Channel Zero: The Dream Door for Syfy and creator Nick Antosca. He is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Myman Greenspan Fox.
Anomaly Pictures’ Waldron and Adam Fasullo precocious renewed their wide woody pinch 20th Television, nan workplace down nan Hulu comedy Chad Powers, which Waldron co-created and executive produces pinch prima Glen Powell. In summation to serving arsenic showrunner of that series, which precocious wrapped connected Season 2, Waldron is directing 4 of nan six episodes, including nan play premiere and finale. Waldron came to that task pinch a agelong history astatine Disney. Previously, he was creator, caput writer and executive shaper of Loki and additionally penned Doctor Strange successful nan Multiverse of Madness for nan studio. He is repped by Untitled, CAA, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Condon and Phillips are repped by Untitled and Weintraub Tobin Chediak.
