Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s “Flatlands” has gone into development at FX, Deadline reports. The hour-long serio-comedy comes from the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated collaborators and independent film production company Likely Story.
The “American Splendor” and “Cinema Verite” filmmakers will co-write and direct “Flatlands.” The series “is set in a multi-ethnic, old-school corner of Brooklyn where a bored PTA mom reinvents herself as a local political kingpin who will do anything — including dismantling her family — to attain power,” Deadline writes. It sounds as though “Flatlands” will introduce viewers to an amazing female anti-heroine.
Springer Berman and Pulcini, whose recent credits include “Ten Thousand Saints” and “Girl Most Likely,” will executive produce along with Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and VP Jeff Stern.
When we asked Springer Berman her advice for other female filmmakers she said, “Nurture your projects, but don’t nurture them to the point of suffocation. Too many brilliant female directors take ten years between films,” she explained. “If your pet script isn’t moving forward, consider putting it away for a while and start something new.”
Springer Berman and Pulcini received an Oscar nomination for their adapted screenplay for “American Splendor” and an Emmy nod for directing HBO’s “Cinema Verite.”
