EXCLUSIVE: STX Entertainment has entered into a first-look deal with How to Train Your Dragon producer Michael Connolly’s Mad Hatter Entertainment label.Connolly was key in bringing the George Lopez series Once Upon a Time in Aztlan into STXtv, which Deadline first told you about, from new talent Javier Rodriguez.
The series, which Lopez is starring in and executive producing with famed photographer Estevan Oriol, iconic LA-based artist Mister Cartoon, and director Ricardo de Montreuil, was recently set at Amazon and opened its writers’ room.For the past four years, Connolly served as Head of Television for Vertigo Entertainment, where he created the division and closed POD deals with both WBTV and Sony Pictures Television.
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