Fox Developing Billionaire Apocalypse; Jay Carson, Hugh Jackman EPs

Fox stated late Sunday night time that it’s creating a drama sequence tentatively titled Billionaire Apocalypse that hails from The Morning Present creator Jay Carson and counts Hugh Jackman amongst its govt producers.

The drama, from Fox Leisure Studios for the Fox community, is written and govt produced by Carson, creator and author of Apple+’s Emmy-nominated Morning Present. Additionally serving as exec producers are Lawrence Bender (Flesh and Bone, Pulp Fiction) and Kevin Brown (Flesh and Bone, Trumbo).

The logline for the drama: “The richest man on the planet, 200 of his employees, and his family are forced to flee to his private island in the wake of a global financial collapse, where the employees and family members — who he’s treated as afterthoughts for decades — quickly realize he’s no longer rich and thus no longer in charge.”

The venture, which has obtained a script dedication, is being distributed worldwide by Fox Leisure International. No solid is connected as of but.

Along with Morning Present, Carson’s credit embrace serving as a supervising producer on Netflix’s first sequence, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Home of Playing cards. He’s at present creating and writing a number of films and TV exhibits, together with an hourlong drama that stars Judith Mild, a function starring and directed by Josh Brolin and one other venture with Jackman. 

Earlier than launching his profession in Hollywood, Carson labored in authorities and politics, beginning with Sen. Chuck Schumer’s first run for the U.S. Senate in 1998 and Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate race, and likewise served because the press secretary for U.S. Senate Majority Chief Tom Daschle. Whereas working for Daschle, he was one of many roughly 20 individuals who contracted anthrax within the 2001 anthrax assaults on the Capitol. He additionally was President Invoice Clinton’s communications director and Hillary Clinton’s press secretary on her first presidential marketing campaign.

Bender has produced movies which have yielded 37 Oscar noms in complete, with 9 wins, together with Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, Good Will Looking and An Inconvenient Reality. Different movie credit embrace Idris Elba-Regina King starrer The Tougher They Fall, Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, Martin Scorsese’s Silence, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Invoice: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and Reservoir Canines, Brad Pitt-Julia Roberts starrer The Mexican, Anna and the King starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fats and Robert Rodriguez’s From Nightfall Until Daybreak. TV credit embrace A&E’s The Chicano Squad, CW’s Roswell, New Mexico, Netflix’s Emmy-winning Seven Seconds and Starz’s Golden Globe-nominated Flesh and Bone.

Brown has produced two dozen TV and have tasks, together with Flesh and Bone, Seven Seconds, HBO’s Soul of the Sport and the Oscar-nominated movie Trumbo.