‘M.I.A.’ Ordered Straight-to-Series at Peacock

Peacock has handed a straight-to-series order to the crime thriller M.I.A., written and government produced by Ozark co-creator Invoice Dubuque.

MRC will produce the South Florida-set sequence a couple of household working medicine for Etta Tiger Jonze, however when her household is slaughtered, she seeks justice to avenge her blood household whereas she builds her chosen household. The consequence has Etta on a sequence journey from a powerless orphan to South Florida’s strongest prison Queenpin. 

Karen Campbell will government produce and showrun M.I.A., whereas Stefano Sollima will direct and government produce. Earlier, Solima served because the creator and director of ZeroZeroZero and because the showrunner and director of the hit Italian sequence Gomorrah.

Ozark earned 45 Emmy nominations and 4 wins, along with honors at the Golden Globes, WGA, SAG and DGA Awards.

Much like the storyline for M.I.A., Ozark was about household and the American Dream. It starred Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner and Julia Garner. Co-creator Dubuque had a job as a recruitment hunter earlier than branching out into screenwriting.

He wrote the Ben Affleck-fronted function The Accountant and The Choose, which starred Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall.

MRC additionally produces Peacock’s Poker Face sequence, together with T-Avenue’s Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Photos, and the hit comedy Ted. Each exhibits have a second season ordered at Peacock.  

Sollima is represented by Brillstein Leisure Companions and CAA. Dubuque is represented by CAA. Campbell is represented by CAA and Lit Leisure.