Steven Zaillian & Richard Price Limited Series Getting Netflix Order

EXCLUSIVE: More than three years ago, Netflix swooped in to take Ripley, Steven Zaillian‘s limited series starring Andrew Scott, amid a programming strategy shift at Showtime, where the project had been set. The move was a success, with Ripley landing 13 Emmy nominations and winning four awards, including for Zaillian’s directing work.

Out of that relationship has come a second Zaillian limited series for Netflix. According to sources, the six-episode series has been greenlighted off multiple completed scripts, though I hear there may be some details, including rights, that are still being hammered out.

Zaillian co-wrote the crime/mystery drama, tentatively titled Ghettoside, with Richard Price. It is a follow-up to the duo’s 2016 HBO limited series The Night Of. The two executive produce with Zaillian’s frequent collaborator Garrett Basch (The Night Of, Ripley).

Details about the new Netflix series are sketchy; I hear the 2015 non-fiction book Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy is being used as source material.

When confirmed, the Netflix show will join Basch’s three current series, Very Young Frankenstein, Seven Sisters and The Lowdown, all at FX.

The Night Of earned 13 Emmy nominations. Its five wins include a Lead Actor In a Limited Series or Movie for star Riz Ahmed.

Zaillian is repped by WME and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman; Price is repped by UTA.

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