Beau Willimon: Last News

Entertainment One said Wednesday that it has hired Fox executive Gabriel Marano as EVP Scripted Television. He will be tasked with overseeing the development of eOne parent Hasbro’s IP along with being a key part of the company’s overall scripted development.

Former WGA East president Michael Winship, running unopposed, will be the guild’s next president, succeeding Beau Willimon, who’s not seeking re-election after four years in office. House of Cards creator Willimon led the guild through the WGA’s historic legal battle that reshaped the talent agency business.

Netflix has canceled teen drama Grand Army after a single season, it has been announced.The news that the show has not been renewed has been obtained from the streaming platform by Variety.Grand Army debuted on Netflix in October 2020. Based loosely on Katie Cappiello’s 2013 work Slut: The Play.

Grand Army will not return for a second season. Netflix has canceled the drama series after one season, Deadline has confirmed.

eOne has been stepping up its IP drive since it was acquired by Hasbro at the end of 2019.

The WGA came out today in opposition to Georgia’s new voter-suppression law, suggesting that the state’s booming film and television industry might suffer if it’s allowed to stand. Supporters of the law say it’s designed to prevent voter fraud.

Fresh off the WGA’s historic victory over the talent agencies, WGA West president David A. Goodman opened his remarks tonight at the 73rd annual Writers Guild Awards with a good-natured poke at Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor, the parent company of WME, which was the last to sign the guild’s franchise agreement. “We’re recording this three weeks ahead of the ceremony,” he joked, “so if anything has happened to me in the meantime, I would encourage the police to take a hard look at Ari Emanuel.”

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThough confined to a virtual ceremony thanks to the pandemic, leadership at the Writers Guild of America still found cause for celebration at their annual awards ceremony.WGA West president David Goodman and WGA East head Beau Willimon addressed nominees and members in a pre-recorded greeting on Sunday, recapping their recent triumph in a nearly three-year battle with the talent agencies.“We are recording this 3 weeks ahead of the ceremony, so if anything has happened to me in the meantime I would encourage the police to take hard look at Ari Emanuel,” Goodman joked, referring to the Endeavor CEO, whose WME agency was the final institution to cave to the guild’s demands over packaging fees.

Risk is being developed by House Of Cards creator Beau Willimon.The upcoming series, which marks the first collaboration between Entertainment One Ltd. (eOne) and Willimon and Jordan Tappis’ production company Westward following their multi-year deal, is the first television adaptation of the board game, which sees player-controlled armies face off against one another on a world map in a war for territory.“All of us at Westward are thrilled to join forces with eOne to bring to lifesome of the most successful IP in the marketplace as well as partner on our extensive slate of scripted television shows,” Willimon and Tappis said in a statement (via Deadline).

You know, if a Hollywood studio thinks it’s a good idea to make a film based on the Rubik’s Cube, then who are we to tell them that a board game is off-limits? And if you have the creator of “House of Cards,” then there’s no reason that a TV series based on “Risk” can’t work. According to Deadline, eOne has teamed with Hasbro on a new TV series based on the board game, “Risk.” And the studios have hired Beau Willimon to act as an executive producer and writer for the series.

Popular board game Risk could be heading to screens.The creator of the Netflix series House Of Cards, Beau Willimon, has been tapped to develop a series based on the game, THR.comreported on Monday.First released in 1957, Risk challenges players to achieve world domination through strategy, diplomacy and war. In development: Hasbro-owned studio Entertainment One has inked a deal with Beau Willimon to create a TV series based on the popular strategy board game RiskAccording to THR.com Monday, Hasbro-owned studio Entertainment One has inked a multi-year deal with Willimon's Westward production company.

Beau Willimon, the creator of the Netflix series House of Cards, is developing a television series adaptation of the classic board game Risk.

Beau Willimon, creator of Netflix’s House of Cards, is overseeing a TV remake of classic board game Risk after signing a first-look deal with Hasbro-owned eOne.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Risk, the iconic Hasbro property that has taught families the art of diplomacy (and conquest) for over six decades, will be getting a TV adaptation as part of a multi-year television deal between the board game, toys and media behemoth’s entertainment studio and Beau Willimon and Jordan Tappis’ Westward.Entertainment One (eOne), announced the partnership with the Venice Beach and Brooklyn-based production company today. As part of the deal, Willimon (“House of Cards,” “The First”), an Academy-award nominee and avid fan of Risk, will be writing and overseeing the production of the scripted series.

A growing chorus of entertainment industry union leaders is condemning Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol building by supporters of President Donald Trump – and the politicians who incited the violence.

David Robb Labor EditorThe WGA East has launched the WGA Audio Alliance to help fiction writers organize high-budget scripted podcasts under the guild’s contracts.In the past two years, the guild has organized several nonfiction podcast companies, including Gimlet, The Ringer and Parcast.

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Mahershala Ali is set to portray iconic boxer Jack Johnson, who was the first Black heavyweight champion, in Unruly, a six-part series slated to air on HBO.The production starring the 46-year-old actor is based on Ken Burns's 2004 documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, and the corresponding Geoffrey C. Ward book.HBO began developing in 2013 with Beau Willimon linked to the project, Variety reported.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMahershala Ali is attached to play boxer Jack Johnson in a limited series currently in the works at HBO, Variety has learned.The six-part series is titled “Unruly.” It is described as an unapologetically Black, no-holds-barred telling of Johnson’s life. The first ever Black heavyweight boxing champion, the show would follow Johnson’s rise to greatness and the costs he paid for his skin color and defiance.The series is based on the PBS documentary “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson,” which was produced and directed by Ken Burns, as well as the accompanying book by Geoffrey C.

David Robb Labor EditorCreators and showrunners aren’t mentioned in the industry’s protocols for the safe reopening of TV production, but they’ll play key roles in on-set safety, according to leaders of the WGA East.“There have been some rumors going around that the protocols aim to exclude creators, showrunners and writer/producers from set.