TNT, Michael Ovitz Developing Tom Clancy's 'Homeland Security'

Getty ImagesMichael Ovitz Michael Ovitz takes another stab in the television business, developing Tom Clancy's Homeland Security with TNT. The project, a procedural turning around a team of domestic intelligence agents who fight opponents both at home and abroad, could be compiled by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Clancy and Chris George. Ovitz is aboard to executive produce the project, that ought to it move ahead, will be the former Wally Disney Co. topper and CAA co-founder's first television on-screen credit. Grillo-Marxuach (Lost), George and Clancy would executive produce Homeland Security alongside Ovitz. TNT Productions will produce the project. Homeland Security marks an uncommon television effort for Clancy, whose large-screen efforts have incorporated adaptations from the Search for Red-colored October, Patriot Games, Obvious and offer Danger and The sum of the All Fears. The very first book in Clancy's NetForce series was modified like a telefilm with Scott Bakula in 1999. TNT is also creating a drama project from CSI's Carol Mendelsohn according to Susannah Charleson's Scent from the Missing. The cable network's development slate includes a real possibility series from Mark Burnett and drama project H.I.K.E., co-compiled by Forest Whitaker, among other projects. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit Michael Ovitz TNT TV Development