Peacock has handed a straight-to-series order to the crime thriller M.I.A., written and executive produced by Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque.
MRC will produce the South Florida-set series about a family running drugs for Etta Tiger Jonze, but when her family is slaughtered, she seeks justice to avenge her blood family while she builds her chosen family. The result has Etta on a series journey from a powerless orphan to South Florida’s most powerful criminal Queenpin.
Karen Campbell will executive produce and showrun M.I.A., while Stefano Sollima will direct and executive produce. Earlier, Solima served as the creator and director of ZeroZeroZero and as the showrunner and director of the hit Italian series Gomorrah.
Ozark earned 45 Emmy nominations and four wins, in addition to honors at the Golden Globes, WGA, SAG and DGA Awards.
Similar to the storyline for M.I.A., Ozark was about family and the American Dream. It starred Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner and Julia Garner. Co-creator Dubuque had a job as a recruitment hunter before branching out into screenwriting.
He wrote the Ben Affleck-fronted feature The Accountant and The Judge, which starred Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall.
MRC also produces Peacock’s Poker Face series, along with T-Street’s Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Pictures, and the hit comedy Ted. Both shows have a second season ordered at Peacock.
Sollima is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and CAA. Dubuque is represented by CAA. Campbell is represented by CAA and Lit Entertainment.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
