HBO Max’s new crime collection is formally shifting ahead with a veteran from the Rocky franchise and the director of Suicide Squad.
The long-running sports activities franchise now consists of six Rocky and three Creed films. This consists of Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), and Creed III (2023). As for Suicide Squad, the DC film was launched in 2016 and featured Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Will Smith as Deadshot.
Now, as reported by Deadline, HBO Max has tapped Rocky franchise star Milo Ventimiglia and Suicide Squad director David Ayer to guide the pilot episode of American Blue. It’s a police drama collection that comes from former Supernatural showrunner Jeremy Carver and Warner Bros. Tv. Ventimiglia performs Brian “Milk” Milkovich, a quiet however efficient chief who comes again dwelling to Joliet, Illinois to save lots of his hometown’s police power and redeem himself from his previous.
Past taking part in Rocky’s son, Robert Balboa Jr., in Rocky Balboa and Creed II, Milo Ventimiglia’s best-known function was as Jack Pearson within the hit NBC drama This Is Us, which ran for six seasons and earned him three Emmy Award nominations. By casting a preferred community tv star, HBO is following within the footsteps of The Pitt, which forged community TV actor Noah Wyle within the main function. With American Blue, HBO can be taking the same strategy to The Pitt with an genuine strategy to the subject material, longer seasons, yearly releases, and a modest price range. Learn an announcement in regards to the upcoming present from Sarah Aubrey, Head of Max Unique Programming, under:
American Blue will take audiences inside a gritty and genuine police drama, reflecting the myriad challenges in policing right now. As with The Pitt, our purpose of longer seasons will permit viewers to sink deeply into this world throughout a number of episodes and to return to it on an annual foundation. We are able to’t look forward to Jeremy Carver’s imaginative and prescient for American Blue to return to life with Milo Ventimiglia within the lead function and David Ayer directing our pilot.
The Pitt‘s optimistic evaluations for seasons 1 and a couple of, a near-perfect general Rotten Tomatoes critics’ rating of 97%, excessive viewership, and quite a few Emmy wins have led to HBO wanting to duplicate this success with extra procedural reveals. American Blue is just not their solely pilot within the works that’s supposed to observe this mannequin, with a household drama referred to as Survive With out Me additionally in improvement. Ventimiglia’s expertise with community tv comes alongside Carver’s personal expertise with Supernatural seasons that featured greater than 20 episodes.
American Blue‘s Ayer, then again, is newer to tv, having solely directed two episodes of Fox’s police drama Deputy. Apart from Suicide Squad, his movie directing credit embody Finish of Watch, Netflix’s Shiny, and the Jason Statham-led Beekeeper and A Working Man.