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It's a late April afternoon when Shōgun breakout star Anna Sawai, who stars as the fierce Lady Toda Mariko in the gorgeously wrought, sharply modernized adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 bestseller, spots castmate Tadanobu Asano and producer-star Hiroyuki Sanada across a studio floor. Her face lights up…

Editor’s note: Shōgun was originally selected for Deadline's showcase of standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2024 Emmy contention. Following the show’s renewal and subsequent move to drama categories, it is no longer part of that series. Months after Shōgun had been greenlighted, it was…

As the costume designer for FX’s historical epic Shōgun, set in 1600 Japan, Carlos Rosario knew his designs would serve the very vital purpose of supporting the audience’s connection to, and understanding of the story. In contrast to recent Best Picture winner Oppenheimer, another historical piece…

A year ago, Shōgun was deep into pre-production, with several actors cast and production start date fast approaching, when FX put the limited series on hold. Last spring, Counterpart creator Justin Marks was brought on as writer and executive producer. Now, several months later, the series, based on James Clavell's…

Justin Marks, the creator and showrunner of Starz’s spy series Counterpart, and the screenwriter of Disney’s The Jungle Book and Paramount’s upcoming Top Gun sequel, has signed an overall deal with FX Productions. The deal, which will see Marks develop new content for the FX network, was unveiled Thursday by Gina…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will make a CG-animated feature film inspired by the childhood of Haitian singer and The Fugees co-founder Wyclef Jean. Greg Silverman’s upstart production company Stampede is partnering with the three-time Grammy Award-winning musician to produce the film. Script will be written by Justin Marks…

Get Out standout Betty Gabriel has joined the Season 2 cast of Starz’s spy thriller Counterpart, with production set to begin Wednesday in Berlin. Gabriel will play the new series regular role of Naya Temple, a former FBI agent recently hired by the Office of Interchange to clean house, a figure both intimidating and…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off an Oscar win for Whiplash, JK Simmons will topline Counterpart, a sci-fi thriller drama series for Starz from MRC, Anonymous Content and Gilbert Films. It was created and written by Justin Marks, writer of the upcoming Disney Jungle Book movie, with Oscar-nominated Imitation Game helmer Morten…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Marks is reuniting with producer David Goyer to adapt Vertigo Comics’ Federal Bureau Of Physics, penning the script based on a treatment by Simon Oliver, who created the comic with Robbi Rodriguez. The comic series was titled Collider before the name was changed last year. Nellie Reed from Goyer’s…

A live-action Jungle Book reboot is inching forward at Disney. Rudyard Kipling’s collection of fables has been adapted many times before, although its best known iteration is Disney’s own 1967 animation about a young “man cub” named Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian wilds. Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The L…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC, home of fairytale drama Once Upon A Time, has put in development another fantasy project with magical elements. A Kingdom Far Away hails from feature writer Justin Marks; ABC Studios, which is also behind Once Upon A Time; and Dan McDermott and Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s studio-based di Bonaventura…

EXCLUSIVE: Elgin James has been set to direct Come Sundown, a drama scripted by Justin Marks that will shoot in the fall. Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell of Electric City Entertainment are producing the thriller about a family taken hostage by desperate fugitives determined to get across the border. It becomes a…