ABC Buys Action Adventure Drama From Michael Seitzman and Mark Gordon

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has made the purchase of their most ambitious projects to date this development season — a globetrotting adventure from North Country author Michael Seitzman and producer Mark Gordon. In line with the Jack West Junior. book series by best-selling Australian action thriller novelist Matthew Reilly, The Seven Miracles is really a treasure search show within the spirit of Raiders from the Lost Arc and National Treasure. It focuses on an unlikely five-member team brought by commando-switched-archeologist Jack West Junior. because they search the planet for seven bits of an old and effective relic and on the way form a distinctive non-traditional family which includes West Junior.’s 12-year-old adopted daughter. Seitzman will write the pilot script for that project, whose first season depends about the first 2 books within the series, The Seven Ancient Miracles (Seven Deadly Miracles within the U.S.) and also the Six Sacred Gemstones. Seitzman got aboard to evolve the books as soon as he read them. “They seem like large boyhood and girlhood adventure tales they're really fun and help remind me of all of the movies within the genre I loved,” Seitzman stated. He calledthe books “a combination of background and historic truth and thoroughly attracted-out plausible fiction.” Seitzman is writing the project underneath the new two-year deal he signed with ABC Galleries in May. He'll executive produce it with frequent collaborator Gordon, who also restored his overall deal in the studio early in the year. This really is Seitzman’s second project at ABC this year. He's also writing/executive creating family cleaning soap Americana which, like Seven Miracles, is created by ABC Galleries and also the Mark Gordon Co. WME-repped Seitzman is at an identical situation three years ago when younger crowd developed 2 shows for ABC Galleries with Gordon, Empire Condition and Your Laws, each of which were acquired to pilot by ABC and CBS, correspondingly. The Objective Gordon Co. is also getting an active selling season. Additionally towards the Seven Miracles, the organization just offered light romantic procedural Winging It to ABC. Within the vein of Hitch, the project, compiled by Ron Bass and Jen Smolka, follows a disparate but adorable number of expert relationship coaches (wingmen) because they find it difficult to bridge the space that technology has generated between people. Also within the hopper at ABC is yet another Mark Gordon Co.-created dating project, comedy Status Update from Buddies With Benefits authors Keith Merryman and David Newman, and the other comedy, Andrea Shay’s Stuck Backwards.