{"id":2741,"date":"2020-11-25T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/brightlight-pictures-pier-21-films-align-fort-puleyne\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:49:06","slug":"brightlight-pictures-pier-21-films-align-for-fort-puleyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/brightlight-pictures-pier-21-films-align-for-fort-puleyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightlight Pictures &amp; Pier 21 Align for Comedy Fort Puleyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brightlight Pictures is developing the new comedy series <em>Fort Puleyne<\/em>\u00a0along with Pier 21 Films, writer Evany Rosen (<em>New Eden<\/em>) and Bell Media.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fort Puleyne<\/em> follows the foppishly optimistic young officer Major Fitzwilliam \u201cFitz\u201d Gower as he leaves behind the life he knows for Upper Canada, where he\u2019ll lead a misfit militia in the British Army during the War of 1812. The series is written and created by Thomas Middleditch (<em>Silicon Valley<\/em>, <em>B Positive<\/em>) and Humphrey Ker (<em>Mythic Quest: Raven\u2019s Banquet<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Williamson, president of Brightlight Pictures, will serve as an executive producer on the project, along with Brightlight\u2019s director of development, Jameson Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson said: \u201cThomas and Humphrey have created something really special with <em>Fort Puleyne<\/em>. We have been incredibly excited about this project since we first read the script and we\u2019re looking forward to working with the Bell Media team on its development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker said: \u201cHaving spent the last few years working with Thomas on multiple projects, we are looking forward to continuing our creative relationship with him on <em>Fort Puleyne<\/em>. We can\u2019t wait to bring this to the screen with our partners at Pier 21.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ker commented: \u201cThomas and I were brought together because of our shared love of history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Middleditch added: &#8220;We are looking forward to working with Brightlight and Pier 21 to bring a new entry into everyone\u2019s favorite genre: historical comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brightlight Pictures is developing the new comedy series Fort Puleyne along with Pier 21 Films, writer Evany Rosen (New Eden) and Bell Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":2743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[609,610],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-brightlight-pictures","tag-fort-puleyne"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brightlight Pictures &amp; 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