Hulu are sending to genre shows directly to pilot, says Variety.
After already getting my mouth to water over Stephen King’s “11.22.63” and the cult drama “The Path, starring Aaron Paul, the streaming service is expected to make formal pilot orders soon for “Citizen” from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and ’80s-set thriller “When the Street Lights Go On,” which was originally intended to be a feature film a few years back.
Marking Gomez-Rejon’s writing debut, along with scribes Josh Pate and Nicholas Schutt, “Citizen” is described as a fresh take on the hero origin story blending elements of magical realism and gritty vigilantism set against the backdrop of a vibrant, “supernaturalized” Los Angeles.
“When the Street Lights Go On,” also from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content, is based on the Black List feature script from writers Chris Hutton and Eddie O’Keefe, which was being developed as a film by Anonymous back in 2012. Now re-tooled for a series, the coming-of-age thriller is about a sleepy, suburban town that is rocked by the brutal murder of a high school girl and her teacher in the summer of 1983.
Brett Morgen, who was also attached to the project in the film stage, will direct the pilot episode and will serve as exec producer alongside Hutton and O’Keefe.