“Wayward Pines,” “Blood Brothers”: Fox reveals two major event series in development

Director M. Night Shyamalan arrives to the premiere of "The Last Airbender" in New York, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) ORG XMIT: NYPK103

Fox announced today it has signed development deals for two long-form event series: “Wayward Pines” from M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense,” “Unbreakable”), and FX Productions; and “Blood Brothers,” from Bruce C. McKenna (“Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific”), Gary Randall (“The Glades,” Saving Grace”), Timothy Scott Bogart (“Majors & Minors,” “Touched”), Boardwalk Entertainment Group and Fox Television Studios.

The network will order its first event series pilot(s) later this year with plans to premiere its first long-form event series in 2014.

“With top-notch auspices and feature-quality production plans,“Wayward Pines”and “Blood Brothers” represent exactly the kind of high-impact, 10- to 12-part events we set out to develop when we entered the limited series business,” Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, said in a news release. “These two series are the first of many big ideas, big names and big talent that you can anticipate will be on our air in the next 12-24 months.”

Details on “Wayward Pines,” and “Blood Brothers,” provided by Fox, are as follows:

- Based on the best-selling novel, “Pines,” by Blake Crouch and brought to life by suspense-driven filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, WAYWARD PINES is an intense, mind-bending thriller evocative of the classic cult hit “Twin Peaks.” Secret Service agent ETHAN BURKE arrives in the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, on a mission to find two missing federal agents. But instead of answers, Ethan’s investigation only turns up more questions. What’s wrong with Wayward Pines?  Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the life he knew, from the husband and father he was, until he must face the terrifying reality that he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. WAYWARD PINES is based on a spec script written by Chad Hodge (“The Playboy Club”) and executive-produced by Shyamalan, Hodge, Donald De Line (“Green Lantern,” “The Italian Job”) and Ashwin Rajan (“After Earth”).