There is a limited series about the Cuban Missile Crisis in the work of Samuel Franco, Evan Kilgore, and Adam Goodman at Dichotomy Creative, diverse I learned exclusively.
The series is currently titled “DEFCON-2”. It is based on Sheldon M. Stern’s book “The Week the World Stood Still,” which included transcripts of secretly recorded meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), as well as earlier interviews with members of the US State Department committee. There is currently no network or streaming service connected to the project.
According to the official description, “The series focuses on events not only seen through the eyes of President Kennedy and his brother Bobby, but through those who surrounded them, namely the Associate Press Secretary and Andrew T. Hatcher, the White House speechwriter (at the time), the highest-ranking American African-Americans in the West Wing) and Presidential Secretary Jill Coyne, whose transcription of the ExComm tapes has given her a front-row seat to a world on the brink of destruction.”
Franco and Kilgore will write and produce the series. Goodman will also executive produce alongside Matt Skiena and Peter Eskelsen. The search is on for a way out.
Franco and Kilgore recently attached director James Gray for their own Blacklist script about JFK’s time as the captain of a PT boat during World War II. They are also the authors of Searchlight Pictures’ Keeper of the Diary, about Otto Frank’s attempts to publish his daughter Anne’s diary. In television, they are currently working on “Queen of Persia,” an epic series from the Bible, and a series adaptation of “The Fall of the House of FIFA” at FX.
They were commissioned by Verve and Yorn Levine.
Dichotomy was founded by Goodman, who was previously the President of Production at Paramount and DreamWorks. Sakina is his partner in the business, with the company currently working on a number of projects across multiple platforms.
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