Syfy Developing ‘Clandestine’ Space Drama
Syfy has put in development Clandestine, a drama produced by Universal Cable Prods. Written by actor-writer Todd Stashwick and artist Dennis Calero, Clandestine is described as a swash-buckling space drama/adventure and revolves around mercenaries who masquerade as part of an Intergalactic fleet. John Shiban (Hell On Wheels) is supervising the script and is attached as executive producer, with Stashwick and Calero co-executive producing.
The project stems from an option at UCP had on Stashwick & Calero’s online comic Devil Inside. Stashwick and Calero began collaborating while working together on NBC’s Heroes — Calero was drawing the online comic and Stashwick was recurring on the series’ final season. Stashwick’s acting credits also include The Riches and Justified. He is with APA and Meghan Schumacher Management. ICM-repped Calero helped develop Xmen Noir for Marvel Comics and is currently working with famed horror writer Stephen King.
This is going to be awesome. Todd’s the best and Devil Inside rocks.
Don’t get your hopes up for any show on SyFy lasting more than2-3 years. Just when the characters and storyline begin jelling some one at SyFy will pull the plug because the series isn’t generating enough dough (i.e. Eureka) Eureka’s viewer numbers were growing, the show was well received all over yet SyFy pulled the plug because the show wasn’t making ENOUGH money.
Wow, Curioso. You’re the life of the party.
Eureka lasted FIVE seasons, so you are talking crap. There aren’t many shows that should last beyond five seasons, frankly.
I also believe that many series shouldn’t last beyond five to seven seasons. That’s about 110 to 154 one-hour episodes for a regular 22-episode season. However, in EUReKA’s case, there was only one 21-episode season and the rest were abbreviated seasons. In fairness, I thought the show was good enough for at least a 100 to 110 episode run. EUReKA’s 77 episodes are barely enough for syndication.
I agree with curioso, I don’t have faith in syfy anymore and i was a very huge big fan of syfy, and ever,since they cancel eureka, i stop watching syfy, I just dont have faith in their network. Only watch Netflix for now. Have fun watching those reality shows.
Didn’t they call this show Firefly? Is Nathan Fillion returning?
The Firefly characters were masquerading as part of an intergalactic fleet? Really?
It’s okay. Every Brown Coat thinks every show that is announced is a ripoff of FF. It’s what they do. Pay no mind.
“swash-buckling space drama/adventure and revolves around mercenaries “
…masquerading as part of an intergalactic fleet. So the concept and setting are different. And frankly the Firefly crew weren’t “mercenaries” in the way we think of that word. They transported cargo, they stole, but they weren’t soldiers-for-hire or paid killers.
exactly, it’s a variation of a similar show. I suspect it it’s intended to trade on that Firefly enthusiasm that’s still around after all these years.
Syfy is exactly the channel you want for campy sci-fi/fantasy shows.
They were more smugglers than mercanaries in Firefly/Serenity
That was what I was thinking as well.
So excited about this! I hope Syfy really gets behind the project. I’ll be watching!
5 Years is a good run for any show, plus Eureka had 22 episode seasons for 4 of those 5 years, so compared to most cable shows each season was like 2 seasons in one.
Eureka had a good run and was time for it to bow out gracefully. Can’t say the same for the other fluff on Syfy, from Warehouse 13 to Lost girl…thankfully the terrible Sanctuary finally got put out of its misery though.
As an avid Science Fiction reader this sort of thing is irksome to me. So many great stories that scream to be made into films and too many times what we get instead are cowboys and indians, monsters and slashers, battle ships and tanks, but in space. Most of the time it seems Hollywood has a hard time embracing the genre; I suspect an institutional resistance to using THAT kind of “literature” as source material. OH, if only I had Bill Gates’ money. There are so many cinematic SF novels out there; a shame really.
Firefly sucked! Hopefully this won’t. Kudos.
Let’s hope this won’t effect Defender! A series which is from Robert Hewitt Wolfe. Also a space drama. Cannot imagine Syfy is going to create 2 space drama’s at the same time! ;(
Meh. Have a hard time trusting anything Sci-Fi (oh wait, SyFy) tries to put together after the Blood and Chrome debacle.
Sounds interesting and it has Firefly/Cowboy Bebop vibes in that it seems like a western set in space.