Lloyd Braun

Johnny Depp will step into the lead role of the Brett Ratner-directed The Libertine — not to be confused with the 2004 drama of the same name which also starred Depp.

The U.S. government hatches a plan to use bank robbers to steal from al Qaeda post-9/11.

The Kingsman director is set to take on the story of Pilgrim, a spy who is said not to exist, as he comes out of retirement to investigate a possible terrorist attack on American soil.

Kept under wraps, but serves as a dramatization of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal, referring to the allegations that the French politician sexually assaulted a hotel employee.

Logline: Based on the novel “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”, a lunar colony revolts against their rule from Earth.

Logline: “Pilgrim,” the code name for a man who doesn’t exist and the adopted son of a wealthy American family, is retired from a secret U.S. espionage unit but is called upon to lend his expertise to an unusual investigation and gets caught up in a race against time to save America from oblivion.

Logline: Details are being kept under wraps but project is being pitched as a high end cable show that is set in the world of North Korea.

Logline: Set against the 1936 Olympics in Berlin where Jesse Owens, the son of an Alabama sharecropper, shattered Adolf Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy by winning a record four gold medals in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, the long jump and the 400-meter relay.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A man is assigned jury duty on the trial for a murder he committed.

A recap of today’s renewals, deals and attachments!

A full recap of the day’s sales, pick-ups, attachments, exits, deals and more as the 2012 pilot season approaches!

Logline: A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a plot to rekindle the Third Reich by cloning Adolf Hitler.

A recap of the latest Sales, Pick-ups, Attachments, Exits, Deals, Renewals, Cancellations & More.

CBS gets into the JJ Abrams/Jonah Nolan show, Cinemax picks up “24 meets Call of Duty”, and Fox snags a medical drama from NBC. Meanwhile, ABC adds a couple directors, Cinemax adds 3 directors for previously mentioned, CW adds 1 for OC reunion project (of sorts), Fox adds a pair of brothers for Council of Dads, and NBC adds David Slade for Inception-like pilot, and Jeffrey Reiner to bring a certain princess superhero to life!

A&E greenlights a PI drama, CBS grabs a supernatural cop drama, as well as an assistant comedy, Comedy Central revives a dormant Spike pilot, MTV brings us back to 1993 with some B&B, NBC picks up a new “inception-like” spec from Lone Star creator, adds a Brit reboot, a cheaters love story, and an Arrested Development style laugher. Meanwhile, NCIS gets a renewal, Chase doesn’t, and CBS and Comedy Central add directors to their pilots.

Logline: The story centers around a woman who has electrodes implanted in her brain to control her seizures, and discovers a way to experience her past lives, while uncovering a plan by another woman to kill her husband.

Logline: Story centers on Fred Mumford, a recently deceased man, who upon realizing he’d done nothing of substance with his life, is determined to be more productive as a corpse, and partners with a couple of ghouls to start a temp agency for the dead – renting out ghosts to the living.

ABC reboots two foreign formats, snags another musical series, and an action/adventure adaptation, CBS continues their Zuicker affair with Detail, CW gets a little jealous and decides to go supernatural with Zuicker, and musical with Prickly, while Disney Channel finds a little Gravity, Fox finds Godfrey and a Free Ride, Starz eyes Hollywood’s nightlife, and SyFy says yes (again) to Alphas!

Logline: Story will revolve around a couple’s relationship and the ups and downs they encounter while trying to understand each other.