AsThe Umbrella Academy is headed for its fourth and final season, the series’ executive producer/showrunner Steve Blackman has re-upped his big, eight-figure overall deal with the streamer.
Blackman will now write and produce new series under his Irish Cowboy production banner. This multi-year deal is effective immediately. Two sci-fi series are in development at the moment. Horizon Zero Dawn, based on the PlayStation action-adventure game, and ISS drama Orbital.
Netflix had been looking to put together a TV series based on Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero DownThe story is set in a postapocalyptic United States, inhabited by robotic creatures, and follows Aloy, a clever outcast hunter, for the past few weeks.
“Horizon Zero Dawn and Orbital are elevated, event-level projects grounded in characters that fans will love and relate to, which are hallmarks of Irish Cowboy productions,”Blackman. “We’re thrilled to be working with Netflix and all of our partners on developing these ground-breaking stories.”
Blackman has appointed Abbey Morris, Fabrik Entertainment’s executive, as SVP Development. She worked for Fabrik on series like Bosch, The Killing. American Odyssey The ComediansThe true crime TV show was produced by. Interrogation.
Here are details about the two series in active development at Blackman’s Irish Cowboy Productions:
Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Zero DawnThe epic sci-fi adventure series “The Future” is set a thousand years into the future in a bizarre and beautiful world filled with primitive tribes, high-tech machines and all built on the bones. ‘Old Ones’ – the ruins of our present-day United States. Although the disaster that decimated our world is long past, Aloy, a young rebel, discovers that her only hope of saving her world is to find out what happened to it. Released for the first time in 2017. Horizon Zero DawnIt has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide on PlayStation 4 and PC. (*as of Nov. 28th 2021)
Executive Producers: Steve Blackman and Michelle Lovretta; Abbey Morris and Carter Swan of PlayStation Productions. Jan-Bart van Beek, Ben McCaw and Roy Lee of Guerrilla. Matthew Ball of Vertigo.
As part of Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions. Based on the PlayStation Studios videogame created by Guerrilla
Oral
An exciting series of events set at the International Space Station.Oral is an original concept by writers David & Keith Lynch, who will co-create the series with Steve Blackman and direct an episode.
Executive Producers: Steve Blackman and Abbey Morris, The Lynch Brothers (Dan Lin, Nick Reynolds, Jonathan Eirich)
Richard Wylie & Ed Barratt, Co-Executive Producers
UTA and Felker Toczek Suddleson have repped Blackman.