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Prime Video has fixed a straight-to-series bid to nan Texas-set crime thriller Calamities, from showrunner, writer, and head David Weil (Hunters). He besides executive produces alongside Natalie Laine Williams done their Please Enjoy banner, and Glen Powell and Dan Cohen’s accumulation institution Barnstorm, pinch Ryan Schwartz serving arsenic co-executive producer.
The streamer touts, “Calamities is a gripping and propulsive Texas crime thriller for illustration nary other. After a supplier woody explodes into violence, a quiet separator municipality is thrust into a deadly collision people betwixt a small-town sheriff looking for answers from her past, a sociopathic deed woman, an overly eager FBI agent, and a ruthless sect of nan cartel.”
“Calamities is nan unsocial character-rich thriller that doesn’t blink,” shared Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television, Amazon MGM Studios. “David Weil has crafted a communicative that knocks nan upwind retired of you, and we’re beyond excited to support him, Natalie, Glen, and Dan successful bringing it to life connected Prime.”
The bid from Amazon MGM Studios is Weil’s latest bid astatine Prime Video, pursuing Hunters, Solos and Citadel. He is besides nan creator down Apple TV’s Invasion. Weil precocious wrote Extraction 3 for Netflix, sold his co-written original spec Supermax to Miramax, and is presently penning a movie astir journalist Evan Gershkovich for Edward Berger and United Artists. He is besides group to nonstop his original script, Tyrant, for Amazon/MGM. Weil and Please Enjoy are repped by CAA and Jackoway, Austen Tyerman.
Barnstorm, founded past twelvemonth by Powell and Cohen, precocious won nan authorities to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with A24, which includes a bid adjustment from JT Mollner, on pinch a characteristic wrong nan franchise. They precocious wrapped play 2 of Chad Powers for Hulu and began accumulation connected The Comeback King, their first movie nether their characteristic woody pinch Universal. Powell and Barnstorm are repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.
