CBS ORDERS “ZOO,” A NEW DRAMA SERIES BASED ON JAMES PATTERSON’S BESTSELLING NOVEL, FOR BROADCAST IN SUMMER 2015
STUDIO CITY, CALIF. – CBS has given a straight-to-series order for 13 episodes of ZOO, a drama based on the bestselling novel of the same name by James Patterson, for broadcast in summer 2015.
Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg wrote the script and are executive producers with James Mangold, Cathy Konrad, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, Leopoldo Gout and Steve Bowen.
ZOO is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans across the planet. As the assaults become more cunning, coordinated and ferocious, a young renegade biologist is thrust into the race to unlock the pandemic’s mystery before there’s no place left for people to hide.
The book was originally published in September 2012 by Little, Brown and Company and was a #1 New York Times bestseller. It’s been translated into six languages and has sold more than four million copies worldwide.
“ZOO further demonstrates our commitment to high-quality, year-round programming and to high-concept series that play to summer audiences in the U.S. as well as on a global scale,” said Nina Tassler, Chairman, CBS Entertainment. “With this #1 bestseller coming to television, we’re excited to give our viewers a thrill ride with another blockbuster summer event.”
ZOO is a CBS Television Studios production. The series will be distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and worldwide by CBS Studios International.
James Patterson is the world’s #1 bestselling writer. To date, he has sold 300 million copies of his 130 novels worldwide, and he’s the first author to sell 10 million ebooks. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers of any author.
Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg (“Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and the upcoming “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) recently signed a first-look deal with CBS Television Studios under their banner Midnight Radio. James Mangold (“Walk the Line,” “The Wolverine”) and Cathy Konrad (“Walk the Line,” “Girl, Interrupted”) have an overall deal with CBS Television Studios through Tree Line Films.
STUDIO CITY, CALIF. – CBS has given a straight-to-series order for 13 episodes of ZOO, a drama based on the bestselling novel of the same name by James Patterson, for broadcast in summer 2015.
Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg wrote the script and are executive producers with James Mangold, Cathy Konrad, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, Leopoldo Gout and Steve Bowen.
ZOO is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans across the planet. As the assaults become more cunning, coordinated and ferocious, a young renegade biologist is thrust into the race to unlock the pandemic’s mystery before there’s no place left for people to hide.
The book was originally published in September 2012 by Little, Brown and Company and was a #1 New York Times bestseller. It’s been translated into six languages and has sold more than four million copies worldwide.
“ZOO further demonstrates our commitment to high-quality, year-round programming and to high-concept series that play to summer audiences in the U.S. as well as on a global scale,” said Nina Tassler, Chairman, CBS Entertainment. “With this #1 bestseller coming to television, we’re excited to give our viewers a thrill ride with another blockbuster summer event.”
ZOO is a CBS Television Studios production. The series will be distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and worldwide by CBS Studios International.
James Patterson is the world’s #1 bestselling writer. To date, he has sold 300 million copies of his 130 novels worldwide, and he’s the first author to sell 10 million ebooks. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers of any author.
Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg (“Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and the upcoming “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) recently signed a first-look deal with CBS Television Studios under their banner Midnight Radio. James Mangold (“Walk the Line,” “The Wolverine”) and Cathy Konrad (“Walk the Line,” “Girl, Interrupted”) have an overall deal with CBS Television Studios through Tree Line Films.
Source:
Sounds slightly terrifying but I may have to check this book out now.
ReplyDeleteThis actually looks interesting...getting sick of the zombies taking over the world!
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I gave up on James Patterson books quite some time ago. (IMHO) They just became run of the mill cookie cut thrillers being churned out like some factory product. So, I will use extreme caution before watching this (whenever it airs and a series order is no guarantee that it will air - just look at Hieroglyph)
ReplyDeleteThe Birds for the 21st century?
ReplyDeleteI use to read James Patterson years ago but stopped,really don't care for his writing anymore but i"ll give it shot since Jeff Pinkner is in on it....
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Between Zombies and Vamps i could use something different!
ReplyDeleteEspecially if Extant is as big as UtD. Although while I think it looks 100x better than UtD I am worried that it being sci-fi will turn people off. *hope I'm wrong*
ReplyDeleteI hope they continue, Extant doesn't look that appealing to me, but I'm definitely going to check out this one, it looks different.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of that one episode of The X-Files where the invisible animals go on a rampage.
ReplyDeleteFor whatever reason after reading the title I was expecting it to be a nice drama about an all-American family buying and saving a Zoo. I was not expecting "a wave of violent animal attacks against humans across the planet"... It sounds very... Sharknado...
ReplyDeleteAfter the mess that was Under the Dome, I am not looking forward to another CBS adaptation of a novel.
ReplyDeleteOH! Three good Bad Robot writers and Scott Rosenberg has a co-write with Abrams on Armagedon and he also was a writer on the American version of Life on Mars (which I miss so much) and Con Air and High Fidelity!!!
ReplyDeleteI have never read a James Patterson book, but remember hearing about this potential series before! Definitely will be checking it out next summer!
Except that CBS is pretty reliable network that seems to things very by the book. As long as they don't have a dispute with Time Warner again, I think we can count on this happening. It's not like it says "pilot commitment" either, it's 13 episodes straight to order!
ReplyDeleteLol, that's what I thought too, like the movie We Bought a Zoo
ReplyDeleteIt kind of reminds me of Jurassic Park, but with animals of all sizes and all over the world instead! :D
ReplyDeleteHere's a pic to go with my other comment! :P
ReplyDeleteLoL, Love it!!
ReplyDeleteProbably won't be watching this...I can't handle animal killing, not even evil animals!
ReplyDeleteThe book was great! I love James Patterson, cannot wait to see how this plays out!
ReplyDelete