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Presidential Assasination Thriller ‘Sky On Fire’ In The Works At NBC From Emilio Ortega Aldrich, Jake Coburn & Julie Plec

10.12.2021 - 02:01

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EXCLUSIVE: Jake Coburn and Julie Plec, whose bank heist drama series The Endgame was picked up to series at NBC in September, have sold another project to the network with Arrow and Supergirl writer Emilio Ortega Aldrich.The trio are developing Sky On Fire for NBC, which comes from Plec’s My So-Called Company and Universal Television.The drama centers around President Eva Ortiz, a decorated war veteran and the nation’s first Latina president, who, after surviving an assassination attempt, embarks on an undercover mission to expose the people responsible.It comes after Quantico exec producer Coburn struck a first-look deal with Universal Television in September, the same week that The Endgame, which he’s writing with Chuck exec producer

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