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EXCLUSIVE: Peabody Award-winning producer, showrunner, and writer Gary Lennon (Power Book IV: Force, Hightown) is processing nan caller crime play Los Feliz astatine Starz.
Los Feliz is an affectional high-stakes crime play astir an matter that destroys friendships, marriages, and careers – yet starring to a execution lawsuit that divides a organization and destroys them all. If nan lies don’t termination them, nan truth will.
The bid is group successful nan Los Angeles vicinity of nan aforesaid sanction adjacent Hollywood. All 8 episodes are presently being written by Lennon.
Also for Starz, Lennon has been successful improvement connected nan caller “Power” Universe spinoff bid Power: Legacy (working title) since past June. He continues to activity connected that task simultaneously pinch Los Feliz, arsenic Power: Legacy is still successful nan improvement phase.
When/If Legacy gets ordered to series, it would push nan coming timeline communicative up that ended pinch nan bid finale of Power Book IV: Force and would subordinate Power: Origins, a Power prequel from Sascha Penn, connected nan network’s slate. Lennon was nan showrunner, writer, director, and executive shaper of Force, led by Joseph Sikora, who is expected to lead Legacy alongside Power Book II: Ghost lead Michael Rainey Jr. Additionally, Lennon served arsenic co-showrunner connected nan last play of nan mothership Power series and executive shaper of nan series.
In 2024, Lennon extended his woody pinch Lionsgate Television, nan workplace down nan Power franchise, created by Courtney A. Kemp. Under said deal, he will proceed to activity with Lionsgate Television and Starz connected improvement opportunities to grow the Power Universe
Outside of that franchise, he executive produces connected nan deed HBO bid Euphoria, Starz’s P-Valley and Hightown, arsenic good arsenic nan deed Netflix series Orange Is nan New Black. Lennon received Peabody Awards for his activity arsenic a shaper connected FX’s Justified and Orange Is nan New Black. He besides won 2 NAACP Image Awards for nan original Power series.
