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Tuesday, 07/11/2023 9:08:46 AM

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 9:08:46 AM

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Good morning MIKP!

Everyone is talking about Vampirella, but Ella Clah might be the most valuable jewel in the crown.

Ella Clah was very nearly a CBS show 20 years ago. I can totally see this coming out on HBO. Or, as a crossover to fans of Yellowstone, maybe NBC would want in?

According to MIKP:

...we have secured an Emmy award winning Executive Producer to collaborate with us on developing the project...



Here's a link to a book I just ordered: http://leegoldberg.com/portfolio/ella-clah/. This gives the CBS pilot script and the plans from back then for a series. From the book's description:

Aimee & David Thurlo’s Ella Clah, a Navajo Police special investigator, is one of the most enduring and popular characters in detective fiction today. Ella’s dedicated fans have long dreamed of the bestselling, critically acclaimed series coming to television…and it almost happened.

In 2001, CBS commissioned a pilot script, a sample episode of a proposed series, from writer/producers Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin. Sadly, the Ella Clah pilot ultimately wasn’t produced, and ever since, the script has been hotly sought-after by fans. Here, at long last, is that rare pilot script, along with the original sales treatment, six episode ideas, a foreword by the Thurlos, and a detailed account from Goldberg & Rabkin about how they approached their adaptation and what their plans were for the TV series.



From the 10-12g:

[MIKP owns] rights in the exclusive motion picture, television, DVD,
Internet (i.e., a program, web series or movie derived from the Work), and all subsidiary, allied, and ancillary rights to the Ella Clah series of novels by Aimee and David Thurlo, which books in the Series are entitled “Blackening Song”, “Death Walker”, “Bad Medicine”, “Enemy Way”, “Shooting Chant”, “Red Mesa”, “Changing Woman”, Plant Them Deep”, “Tracking Bear”, “Wind Spirit”, “White Thunder”, Mourning Dove”, Turquoise Girl”, “Coyote’s Wife”, “Earthway”, “Neverending Snake”, “Black Thunder”, and “Ghost Medicine”. Rights under Option for Purchase include all right, title and interest of every kind or nature whatsoever in and to the Work including all rights under copyright, and Producer shall have the right to develop, make, sell, produce, distribute, exhibit, broadcast (including without limitation, free broadcast, pay television, cable, subscription, pay-per- view, video-on-demand, DVD and Internet), advertise, publicize, license, record and otherwise exploit the Work and all other publications, productions and other derivative works based upon the Work in any and all languages, formats, manners and media, whether now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe in perpetuity, subject only to the Reserved Rights, which consist of print publication and stage rights.

Ella Clah is currently in development; however due to the Writers Guild of America strike which, as of the date of this document, is ongoing, we are unable to move forward in working with a WGA writer, which is the Company’s intent.

The Company has, however, secured interest from a writer to formulate a pitch for studios prior to the strike and plans to resume working with the writer once the strike comes to a resolution, or otherwise, if at all. A Presentation Deck based on the IP has been created by the Company and we have secured an Emmy award winning Executive Producer to collaborate with us on developing the project and shopping to studios.


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