Patrick Somerville & David Eisenberg Launch Film & TV Production Company Tractor Beam; First Projects In The Works ‘Gringos’ & ‘Ursa Major’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The creator, executive producer and showrunner of the acclaimed HBO Max series Station Eleven, Patrick Somerville, and the series’ associate producer and editor David Eisenberg, have opened the doors to feature film and television production company Tractor Beam.Somerville and Eisenberg first met on The Leftovers, hitting it off as friends and hoping to become eventual collaborators.
They reteamed for Station Eleven, where during the long, often pandemic-induced delays, they hatched the idea for Tractor Beam, with the mission of making content that centers on the creatives and empowers them to control the filmmaking process.Hilary Flynn and Stephanie Jacob-Goldman have been brought aboard as Tractor Beam’s VP of Development and VP of Production, respectively.
Somerville currently has a deal at Paramount Television Studios.“Our mission at Tractor Beam is to help creators get home,” said Somerville. “Streamers have opened up astounding new opportunities in television and film, for many different voices, but in a time of unprecedented expansion, we wanted to create a company centered around protecting the process, trust, and doing it right.
David and I— as well as Hilary and Steph — are people who’ve learned from the ground up, and as a team we look forward to using what we’ve learned to create safe harbors for our creators and collaborators in the future.”“One of the many things I love about Pat, is that he appreciates a cheeseburger just as much, if not more, than a meal at a three-star Michelin restaurant,” said Eisenberg. “And that he can eloquently monologue for hours about why.
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