NBC has ordered the pilot for Wolf, a one-hour medical drama from writer-producer Michael Grassi, producer-director Lee Toland Krieger and govt producer Greg Berlanti. The undertaking comes from Warner Bros Tv, the place all three are below general offers.
That is the undertaking’s third incarnation, after beforehand receiving a put pilot dedication at Fox in 2019 with Alex Berger to put in writing. Krieger stays with the undertaking from its earlier iteration, and he’ll direct the pilot.
Wolf is impressed by the books The Man Who Mistook His Spouse for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks. It follows a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist and his staff of interns as they discover the final nice frontier, the human thoughts, whereas additionally grappling with their very own relationships and psychological well being.
Berlanti will govt producer alongside Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman for Berlanti Productions. Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate will govt producer by way of Fabel Leisure, and Jonathan Cavendish, Andy Serkis and Will Tennant will govt produce for The Imaginarium.
Sacks, who died in 2015 at 82, was a humanist, a passionate explorer of the human consciousness and arguably essentially the most well-known physician of contemporary instances. Dubbed by the New York Instances a “poet laureate of latest medication,” Sacks dove into devoted his life to learning the strangest and most mind-boggling mind problems on the earth as a window into human consciousness, and he believed in remaking our method to the mentally sick and neuro-atypical.
His e book Awakenings was made right into a Greatest Image Oscar-nominated 1990 movie starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Fabrik Leisure, a Crimson Arrow Studios firm, had initially been hooked up to the undertaking after teaming with Serkis and Cavendish’s The Imaginarium to supply a TV drama collection impressed by Sacks in 2018. Sacks’ life additionally was the topic of a TV drama undertaking that acquired a script dedication at NBC in 2013. Titled Sparks, that undertaking was govt produced by Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron and Michael London (Milk).
Krieger directed and govt produced the pilot for the Fox drama collection Prodigal Son. He additionally directed and govt produced the pilot for Lifetime/Netflix’s hit drama You; directed a number of episodes of the CW’s Riverdale, together with the pilot; and the primary two episodes of Riverdale offshoot the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, on which he was an exec producer.
Grassi additionally has a historical past with Berlanti, having written a number of episodes of the CW’s Riverdale. He additionally created the collection’ spinoff Katy Keene, which additionally aired on the CW. He most lately wrote a number of episodes of Fairly Little Liars: Authentic Sin on HBO Max.
