Mauricio Katz & Pedro Peirano Sign Overall Deal With HBO
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Mauricio Katz & Pedro Peirano have signed a two-year overall deal with HBO. As part of their deal, they are currently working as consulting producers on the second season of Perry Mason.
As a duo, Katz & Peirano have developed pilot scripts for STARZ, HBO and FX; and have written screenplays for Hollywood heavyweights such as Martin Scorsese and Benicio Del Toro.On his own, Katz star has been on the rise over the past couple years most recently on HBO’s critically-acclaimed first of Station Eleven, where Katz served as a consulting producer.
Prior to that, he co-created the critically-acclaimed Amazon, SKY and Canal+ global, multilingual series ZeroZeroZero. His other television credits include FX’s The Bridge where he worked as a writer and consulting producer, and Cary Fukanaga’s Maniac for which he served as a writer and co-executive producer and received a WGA and PGA nomination.
Katz is also in development on the feature adaptation of the novel Gringos, by Charles Portis, which he is set to direct and co-write alongside Patrick Somerville.
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