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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+‘s “Land” slate is growing. In a competitory situation, nan streamer has nabbed for improvement Cop Land, James Mangold‘s bid return connected his 1997 Miramax movie. The project, from Paramount Television Studios and Miramax Television, is looking to subordinate Paramount+’s existent hits MobLand and Landman. (Coincidentally, Paramount+ is besides nan TV location of Cop Land prima Sylvester Stallone, who headlines different celebrated play for nan streamer, Tulsa King.)
As Deadline has reported, Cop Land, co-written and executive produced by Mangold and The Old Man co-creator Robert Levine and to beryllium directed by Mangold, was taken retired successful April, landing 4 offers. Levine will service arsenic showrunner.
The project’s origins day backmost to Jonathan Glickman’s assignment arsenic Miramax CEO 2 years ago. An outreach to Mangold astir adapting nan title from nan studio’s movie room to tv was among his first moves.
The process kicked into precocious cogwheel pursuing nan August acquisition of Paramount Global, which owns 49% of Miramax, by Skydance and nan statement of Paramount TV Studios.
Just hours aft nan merger closed, Paramount won successful a bidding war High Side, Mangold’s re-team pinch his A Complete Unknown prima Timothée Chalamet. That was followed a period later by an wide woody nan five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker signed pinch Paramount Pictures.
Conversations stemming from nan pact pinch Paramount TV Studios President Matt Thunell and Paramount Pictures co-chair Dana Goldberg, who oversees nan TV studio, zeroed successful on Cop Land arsenic 1 of nan first awesome collaborations betwixt PTVS and Miramax TV.
Paramount TV Studios produces each Taylor Sheridan and 101 Studios bid for related Paramount+. The workplace besides is down the upcoming constricted bid 9/12 starring Jeremy Strong and a slew of shows successful development.
Cop Land starred Stallone arsenic nan sheriff of a mini New Jersey municipality who comes into conflict pinch nan corrupt New York City constabulary officers who unrecorded there. The movie besides starred Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro.
Mangold wrote and directed nan well-reviewed movie pinch a formidable formed for a filmmaker pinch only a mini indie movie, Heavy, nether his loop until then. (The formed besides included Peter Berg, Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick, Michael Rapaport, Annabella Sciorra, Noah Emmerich and Cathy Moriarty.) Distributed by Miramax, Cop Land grossed $63.7 cardinal connected a $15 cardinal budget.
This marks Mangold’s return to tv aft almost a decade. He astir precocious executive produced nan USA series Damnation, which streamed connected Netflix. Mangold’s characteristic directing credits besides include Girl, Interrupted, Walk nan Line, 3:10 to Yuma, as good arsenic nan Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominee Logan, Best Picture nominee Ford v. Ferrari and Best Picture and Best Director nominee A Complete Unknown. He is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Levine was co-creator and executive shaper connected nan FX series The Old Man starring Jeff Bridges. He besides co-created and executive produced Starz’s Black Sails, worked on Jericho, Harpers Island, Human Target and Touch and adapted for TV different Miramax movie title, Gone Baby Gone, which went to aviator astatine Fox successful 2018. Levine is repped by WME and TFC Management.
