USA Network has ordered limited series Evel, based on the story of larger-than-life ’70s daredevil Evel Knievel. Starring and executive produced by This Is Us’ Milo Ventimiglia, it hail…
falls into USA’s wheelhouse of “heroes, rebels & icons” focused on big stories about big American characters.
The limited series is based on the story of Evel Knievel as he prepares for his greatest death-defying feat — the historic Snake River Canyon jump.is an exhilarating portrait of a complex man living the American dream, juggling meteoric celebrity and raising a family — and facing the very real probability that his next jump will kill him.
Frankel will executive produce with McG, Mary Viola and Steven Bello of Wonderland Sound & Vision; Alex Gartner, Charles Roven and Topher Rhys-Lawrence of Atlas Entertainment; and Ventimiglia. Ventimiglia’s longtime producing partner, Russ Cundiff, will co-executive produce via the duo’s DiVide Pictures. Filming is expected to begin in 2020.had been in the works at USA for a while. It got on a fast track once Ventimiglia sought it out and came on board to play the daredevil icon.
In addition to the Universal Pictures project, in the past few years there have been two other attempts at doing an Evel Knievel feature film by Paramount and Sony.movies to date, the 1971 feature starring George Hamilton and the 2004 TNT TV movie headlined by George Eads.as family patriarch Jack Pearson, a role that has earned him three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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