FX Networks has ordered a pilot for The Strain, adapted from the trilogy of thrillers by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. The authors will co-write the script.
This is the second telemystery news item of the week for del Toro. Two days ago we learned he will executive produce an adaptation of The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz for HBO.
FX has two other pilot projects in development: The Bridge, based on the Swedish/Danish crime drama Bron|Broen; and the comedy/drama Bronx Warrants, centered on a group of detectives assigned to arrest individuals with outstanding warrants.
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The Strain
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Strain Trilogy (1st in series)
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing …
So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city — a city that includes his wife and son — before it is too late.
See also the two other books in this trilogy: The Fall (Amazon / iTunes / Kobo); and The Night Eternal (Amazon / iTunes / Kobo).
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