‘End Of Watch’ TV Adaptation Co-Written By Movie’s David Ayer Gets Fox Script-To-Series Commitment
deadline.comDavid Ayer is bringing his 2012 movie End of Watch to television. Fox has handed a script-to-series commitment to the police drama project based on original film which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña.Co-written and executive produced by Ayer and former Them showrunner David Matthews, End of Watch, the series, follows the daily grind of two young police officers in Los Angeles who are partners and friends, and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.
Fox Entertainment is the studio.End Of Watch is being developed under Fox Entertainment’s new strategy, implemented in 2020, which includes alternatives to traditional pilots.
On the drama side, that involves going script-to-series. End Of Watch is a version of that model — the network has ordered a pilot script, a backup script and a format, and will make a series order decision based on that.
Fox also has put multiple drama projects through writers rooms, which produce scripts that are then considered for a straight-to-series pickup.Ayer, Chris Long and Darryll C.
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