SABC has clocked up an output deal for NBC’s action series, Crusoe, written by Stephen Gallagher (Eleventh Hour) and directed by Duane Clark (CSI: NY). Crusoe is an action adventure drama which Power is co-producing with Moonlighting (S.A) and Muse (Canada) for NBC in the US. Filming for the 13-part series has just started in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa.
Based on Daniel Defoe’s novel, the film chronicles the adventures of the resourceful castaway Crusoe (Philip Winchester) and his companion Friday on a desert island. It involves flashback to Crusoe’s previous life with his widower father (Sean Bean), the woman he loves, Susannah (Anna Walton) and a family friend, Jeremiah Blackthorn (Sam Neill).
Power is extending its presence and services in Africa and Central Eastern Europe with the signing of several multi-year output deals with the regions’ top broadcasters. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and African Independent Television (AIT) have each secured over 600 hrs of programming from Power. The deals cover Power’s entire 2008 and 2009 slate.
Other titles from Power’s slate include XII: The Conspiracy, a two part action thriller also for NBC staring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff, and The Summit, a political thriller starring Mia Maestro, James Purefoy and Christopher Plummer.
