Dresden Gets SCI FI Pickup
SCI FI Channel has ordered 11 episodes of The Dresden Files, a supernatural detective series based on Jim Butcher’s best-selling books, the network said. Nicolas Cage’s Saturn Films and Lionsgate TV will produce the series, which kicks off with a two-hour pilot in January.
Paul Blackthorne (24) plays Harry Dresden, a Chicago-based private detective who has the powers of a wizard. The Dresden Files will shoot in Toronto.
David Carson directed the pilot, which was written by Hans Beimler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and Robert Wolfe (Andromeda); they will serve as executive producers of the series, along with Cage, Norm Golightly and Morgan Gendel.
And before the premier episode has even aired too! For some reason I’d thought that was happening this summer, but I guess it’s been pushed back.
Congratulations to both Jim and his fine agent, arcaedia!