Ava DuVernay, whose Selma is up for the Best Picture Oscar, has been hired to direct a new FBI pilot for CBS, which doesn’t have enough dramas centered on government agencies apparently.
DuVernay will direct For Justice, a new pilot based on James Patterson’s The Thomas Berryman Number. Variety reports that it was written by Rene Balcer (Law & Order), who is also executive producing. It is a CBS TV production.
Other executive producers include DuVernay, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Patterson, Bill Robinson, Leopoldo Gout and Berry Welsh.
For Justice centers on a female FBI agent who works for the Criminal Section of the Department of Civil Rights Division. She has to juggle her families at home and at work.
DuVernay’s Selma is still in theaters. Her next film will reunite her with David Oyelowo and is set during Hurricane Katrina.
She has also agreed to work with Selma co-producer Oprah Winfrey on Queen Sugar for OWN.
CBS is already the home of NCIS and its spin-offs, CSI and Criminal Minds. CSI: Cyber premieres next month and a new Criminal Minds spinoff is in the works. You certainly can never have enough government dramas.
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