EXCLUSIVE: New Amsterdam creator David Schulner is returning to broadcast tv, becoming a member of the artistic workforce of the brand new Fox thriller drama Reminiscence of a Killer. He’ll function an govt producer on the undertaking, which has a straight-to-series order, alongside Ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone, who wrote the script impressed by the 2003 Belgian movie De Zaak Alzheimer, and Cathy Schulman.
Schulner will function co-showrunner alongside British writers Whitmore and Malone who’ve labored primarily in UK tv.
Reminiscence of a Killer, which is eyed for a midseason launch, stars Patrick Dempsey as Angelo Ledda, a hitman main a harmful double life whereas hiding a fair deadlier private secret — he has developed early onset Alzheimer’s. Michael Imperioli performs Dutch, Angelo’s oldest pal and an completed chef whose restaurant is a entrance for a prison enterprise.
Arthur Sarkissian and Martin Campbell additionally govt produce the collection, together with Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks. Warner Bros. Tv and Fox Leisure are the studios.
Schulner is greatest referred to as the creator, govt producer and showrunner of the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam, which ran for 5 seasons and earned him a WGA Award nomination.
He just lately re-teamed with Emily In Paris creator Darren Star, having labored on Star’s NBC dramedy collection Miss Match in the beginning of his profession, to co-create and govt produce half-hour dramedy Uncorked. The undertaking is in growth at Netflix the place it landed with a script-to-series dedication earlier this yr.
Schulner’s intensive TV resume additionally contains Do No Hurt and The Oaks, which he created, and stints on such reveals as As soon as and Once more, Determined Housewives and Everwood. He’s repped by UTA and Myman Greenspan Fox.
