Back in 2009, writer Mark Sable and artist Julian Totino Tedesco.released the comic book miniseries Unthinkable through Boom! Studios. The comic book centered on Alan Ripley, a screenwriter (who was very unlike 24’s Jack Bauer) that finds himself trying to stop a terrorist plot that he conceived years before in a Post-911 think tank.
Four years later, the executive producer of “Homeland” and the upcoming “24: Live Another Day” is gearing up to bring “Unthinkable” to television. According to The Hollywood Reporter
Howard Gordon has secured a put pilot commitment for “Unthinkable” at Fox. “Put Pilot” means that not only must the pilot be made, it has to air at least once on the network or else Fox will pay a substantial fee. This usually indicates that the network is favoring a series order.
“Drive” creator Ben Queen is also attached to the potential “Unthinkable” TV series which has essentially kept the premise of the comic: “A by-the-book FBI agent and a washed-up screenwriters who team up to stop a plot to attack the United States that the screenwriter and others concocted at a government-sponsored think tank years earlier.”
In addition to his two projects at Fox, Gordon is also producing “Tyrant” at FX,” Legends” at TNT and the upcoming third season of “Homeland” on Showtime.
If “Unthinkable” goes to series, it will likely debut on Fox during the 2014 TV season.
