Matt Lopez’s Latinx family drama Promised Land is the latest hour-long project to secure a pilot order at ABC.The project, which was previously known as American Heritage, is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.ABC bought the project preemptively with a put pilot commitment last year.Lopez, who has written feature films including Bedtime Stories, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Race to Witch Mountain, writes and exec produces.
Adam Kolbrenner of Lit Entertainment Group (Raised By Wolves) also exec produces.ABC Signature is the studio.Lopez created the NBCUniversal International drama series Gone starring Chris Noth, which aired on WGN America in the U.S.
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