{"id":8310,"date":"2017-09-29T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/skydance-ties-patrick-massett-john-zinman\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:43:30","slug":"skydance-ties-up-with-patrick-massett-john-zinman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/skydance-ties-up-with-patrick-massett-john-zinman\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydance Ties Up with Patrick Massett &#038; John Zinman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skydance Television has entered into a multiyear overall agreement with writer-producers Patrick Massett and John Zinman (<em>Friday Night Lights<\/em>, <em>The Blacklist<\/em>, <em>Lara Croft: Tomb Raider<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The studio currently has several projects in development with the pair, including the first-ever live-action TV series for\u00a0<em>Sword Art Online\u00a0<\/em>(<em>SAO<\/em>), the massive Japanese novel and anime franchise to which Skydance acquired the global rights last year. Massett and Zinman will serve as writers, showrunners and executive producers on the Skydance series.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Massett and Zinman, Laeta Kalogridis (<em>Avatar<\/em>, <em>Altered Carbon<\/em>)\u00a0will write the pilot episode and serve as an executive producer on the <em>SAO<\/em> series alongside David Ellison,\u00a0Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross. Kalogridis, who has an exclusive overall deal at Skydance, introduced the studio to the property and the world of <em>SAO<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatrick and John have shown incredible range in their storytelling capabilities, from subtle character drama to big, world-building action, and we are beyond fortunate that they have joined the Skydance family,\u201d said Skydance Television President Marcy Ross. \u201cWe\u2019re already deep in development with Patrick, John, and Laeta on our larger than life Skydance <em>SAO<\/em> series, in which we aim not only to satisfy the franchise\u2019s enthusiastic sci-fi and anime fan base but also to appeal to new TV audiences the world over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massett and Zinman commented: \u201cThe fantastical world of <em>SAO<\/em> offers an unparalleled opportunity to tell stories that resonate on both an epic and human scale. We couldn&#8217;t ask for better partners than Skydance and Laeta to help us bring this global pop culture phenomenon to new life on television.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skydance Television has entered into a multiyear overall agreement with writer-producers Patrick Massett and John Zinman (Friday Night Lights, The Blacklist, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-skydance-television","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Skydance Ties Up with Patrick Massett &amp; John Zinman - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/skydance-ties-up-with-patrick-massett-john-zinman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Skydance Ties Up with Patrick Massett &amp; 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