EXCLUSIVE: The 100 actor Sachin Sahel and Brady Roberts, co-creator of the Escaping Denver podcast, have teamed to develop a heist sequence.
Sideshow (working title) will see a younger road performer recruited right into a travelling sideshow, solely to find its circus performers use their distinctive skillsets to commit high-stakes heists.
Sahel is writing the pilot primarily based on an concept he developed with Brady. The Canadian pair can be joined on the challenge by Toronto- and Calgary-based Titan1Studios, which is at the moment taking it out to the worldwide market. The workforce predict casting and community attachments in coming months.
“We’re thrilled to accomplice with Titan1Studios to convey this wildly bold world to life,” Roberts and Sahel mentioned in a joint assertion. “At its core, Sideshow is a personality research wrapped in adrenaline – a narrative about outsiders with extraordinary abilities, discovering neighborhood whereas strolling the razor’s edge between proper and incorrect.”
Sahel was most lately seen in CBC and The CW drama Wild Playing cards and has beforehand recurred in CW sequence The 100 over seven seasons. He’s at the moment starring in Blue Harbor Leisure’s function A Good Indian Boy, which is in cinemas now.
Roberts, an impartial wrestling star and podcast creator, created Escaping Denver with Rogue Panda Footage’ Mike Howorun and was a part of the workforce growing it as a TV sequence. The present, which explores weird and outlandish conspiracy theories surrounding Denver Worldwide Airport, was Corus Leisure’s first scripted podcast and launched its fourth season final fall.
Titan1, meawhile, is at the moment in growth on the likes of Breaking Level from author Abdul Malik, which lately was chosen for the Alberta Media Fund – Script Growth Grant and the CMG’s Producing for Radicalized Canadians Fund. Additionally within the works are an adaptation of comedian sequence Zomben with Rideback Leisure and Season 3 of animated comedy The Mutumbilas.
The corporate, which started life as a comic book books and graphic novels writer and branded content material enterprise, launched its TV and movie arm three years in the past.
Titan1 VP Wes Ambrecht mentioned Sideshow was a “rip-roaring new manner into the heist style that mixes excessive stakes missions with sophisticated character dynamics in a setting that each inside youngster longs to know extra about, the circus.”
Sahel is repped by Pink Administration and Courageous Artists Administration. Roberts is repped by Integral Artists.
