Christopher Storer will write and direct 'The Bear,' which additionally counts 'Atlanta's' Hiro Murai as an exec producer. FX is teaming with
Christopher Storer will write and direct ‘The Bear,’ which additionally counts ‘Atlanta’s’ Hiro Murai as an exec producer.
FX is teaming with Ramy director and govt producer Christopher Storer on a pilot.
The Disney-owned cable community has handed out a pilot order for The Bear, a half-hour present a few younger chef who takes over his household’s restaurant in Chicago. Storer will write and direct the pilot, which counts Hiro Murai (Atlanta) amongst its govt producers. The venture comes from FX Productions.
Storer will govt produce together with Murai and Nate Matteson of Tremendous Frog and Joanna Calo (BoJack Horseman, Undone). Jeanie and Maggie Bacharach will function casting administrators.
The Bear joins a roster of upcoming and in-the-works tasks at FX Networks that features an adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s Metropolis Primeval: Excessive Midday in Detroit from the group behind Justified; restricted collection Fleishman Is in Hassle, based mostly on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel; Danny Boyle’s restricted collection Pistol; and a drama based mostly on New York Occasions author Nicole Perlroth’s nonfiction e book This Is How They Inform Me the World Ends.
Along with Ramy, Storer produced Bo Burnham’s function Eighth Grade and has govt produced and directed comedy specials from Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Jeff Garlin and Hasan Minhaj, amongst others. He has additionally helmed episodes of Apple’s Dickinson and Little Voice. Storer is repped by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone and Paul Hastings LLP.
Murai is repped by UTA, Grandview, Jackoway Tyerman, and for commercials, Doomsday Leisure. Matteson is with UTA, Grandview and Myman Greenspand, and Calo is repped by UTA, Mosaic and McKuin Frankel.