By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV EXCLUSIVE: Veteran showrunner Neal Baer (Designated Survivor, Law & Order: SVU) has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment.
His first project with the management, production and finance company is timely thriller drama The Edit. Co-written by Baer, who is a medical doctor, and Ricardo Perez Gonzalez (Designated Survivor), The Edit is centered on CRISPR, the miracle gene-editing tool that homes in on a mutated gene, surgically snips it out, and splices in a healthy gene in its place.
But there’s a dark side: CRISPR can cut out a healthy gene and replace it with a genetic ticking time bomb. When CRISPR is used by rogue scientists to eliminate a group of people deemed as undesirable, who will stop them?
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