EXCLUSIVE: Ronald D. Moore is again at Sony Pictures Television, signing a multi-year total take care of the impartial studio. Below the pact, Moore, his Tall Ship Productions banner, and longtime collaborators Maril Davis and Ben McGinnis will develop and produce scripted collection for cable and streaming platforms.
Moore left Sony in 2020 after a profitable 10-year run that yielded two long-running, hit collection, Outlander for Starz and For All Mankind for Apple TV+. 4 years later, the dramas he developed/co-created are nonetheless going and each have turn into franchises, spawning upcoming spinoffs, Blood of My Blood and Star Metropolis, respectively. Moore serves as an govt producers on the mothership collection and the offshoots.
Below his earlier Sony TV offers, Moore additionally govt produced two different initiatives that went to collection, anthology Philip Okay. Dick’s Electrical Desires for Prime Video, which he additionally co-developed, and Helix for Syfy.
“This can be a true homecoming, and I couldn’t be extra excited to be reunited with Ron at Sony,” stated Katherine Pope, President, Sony Footage Tv Studios. “Ron is an unbelievable storyteller. He is aware of the way to join with audiences by the characters and worlds he builds – characters and worlds which can be sensible, stunning, wealthy, and genuine. The reveals he has created alongside the incomparable Maril Davis stay related, watched, and admired by tens of millions of followers worldwide, and we will’t wait to see which new locations they may pull us into subsequent.”
When he moved to twentieth Tv in 2020, Moore was attracted by the chance to work with the Disney cannon. He developed a number of initiatives, together with a Swiss Household Robinson collection reboot and The Society of Explorers and Adventurers, set within the Magic Kingdom Universe, for Disney+ in addition to A Court docket Of Thorns And Roses adaptation for Hulu, neither of which has come to fruition.
“I’m extremely comfortable to return house to Sony Footage Tv. Creating reveals with the group there was enormously gratifying, and I’ve at all times been impressed by their enthusiasm and dedication to creating nice reveals,” Moore stated. “I’ve recognized and admired Katherine since we first labored collectively at Common, and I’m actually excited for us to work collectively once more to make nice tv.”
Earlier than signing a deal at Sony TV in 2010, Moore was based mostly at NBCUniversal’s TV studio the place Pope was a programming govt and subsequently president. Whereas there, Moore created the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. He served as govt producer and showrunner on the 2003 collection, which obtained a Peabody Award and earned Moore a drama writing Emmy nomination and an Emmy win for the Battlestar Galactica webisodes.
The deal brings one in every of Sony TV’s most completed creators/showrunners of the previous 20 years again into the fold as one other one, Shawn Ryan, is leaving for a pact with Netflix. The indie studio has been bulking up its expertise roster over the previous couple of months, signing total/first-look offers with Gail Berman, Jessi Klein, Third Rail, Steve Lightfoot and Judalina Neira.
Sci-fi veteran Moore obtained his begin on the writing workers of Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology the place he wrote or co-wrote 27 episodes, together with the two-hour collection finale, for which he gained a Hugo Award in 1994. That very same 12 months, he joined the writing workers of Star Trek: Deep Area 9. Moore served briefly as govt marketing consultant on the USA Community collection Good vs. Evil earlier than becoming a member of the workers of Roswell as govt producer, taking on as showrunner in its closing season. He additionally served as govt producer and showrunner of HBO’s Carnivàle earlier than segueing to Battlestar Galactica.
Moore is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
