ABC Orders Drama Pilot ‘Will Trent’ From Liz Heldens, Dan Thomsen
variety.comJoe Otterson TV ReporterABC has given a cast contingent pilot order to the drama “Will Trent,” Variety has learned.The project is based on Karin Slaughter’s best-selling “Will Trent” novel series.
It focuses on Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI), who was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system.
But now, determined to use his unique point of view to make sure no one feels as abandoned as he was, Will Trent has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.Liz Heldens and Dan Thomsen are set to write and executive produce the pilot.
Slaughter will also serve as an executive producer. 20th Television is the studio.The first book in the “Will Trent” novel series, “Triptych,” was published in 2006.
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