Just over a week ago Diablo Cody signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television, and now comes word that the Oscar winner has a new project in the works at Fox. Variety reports that the “Juno” screenwriter is executive producing “Two Nights,” a cop drama penned by “Finding Carter” co-creator Emily Silver, who will also serve as an EP.
Fox has ordered a script for the series, which centers on Sunday Night, a former cop with memorable name and a smartass sense of humor “who lives on a shrinking island with her pet squirrel and not much else,” the source summarizes. “But when her foster father asks for help in the kidnapping case of a young girl, Sunday is pulled back into the world of law enforcement, forcing her to confront her own demons as she solves cases for the Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI.”
Cody created Showtime’s Toni Collette-starrer “United States of Tara” and co-created Tig Notaro’s semi-autobiographical Amazon series “One Mississippi.” The former aired from 2009–2011, and the sophomore season of the latter series dropped earlier this month. Cody’s feature writing credits include “Ricki and the Flash,” “Young Adult,” and “Jennifer’s Body.” She made her directorial debut with 2013’s “Paradise.”
Best known for co-creating MTV teen drama “Finding Carter,” Silver’s other credits include writing and producing on “The Flash” and “Bones.”
“Not to burst any bubbles, but this business is brutal,” Silver has warned aspiring TV writers. “Especially for the early stages of someone’s career. I started as an assistant, and while it’s not the only path to being a writer, it’s the one I would recommend for young people just starting out.”
Chief among her own inspirations is “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” “I can categorically say I wouldn’t be a writer if it wasn’t for ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’” she’s said. “I was 12 or 13 when the show first aired, and I felt like it was talking directly to me. Adolescence is hell, at least it was for ill-fitting glasses, retainer wearing, frizzy-haired me. I loved the strength of Buffy’s character, but I also loved that she made mistakes.”
