EXCLUSIVE: Linear channel and streaming service MGM+ is developing a period hourlong series from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, Deadline has learned.
Set in 1950s Los Angeles, the noir drama centers on a private investigator dealing with crime and dirty cops in the shadow of glamorous Hollywood, I hear.
Sutter is writer, executive producer via his SutterInk and showrunner of the project, which marks his first foray into the noir genre and a return to the Los Angeles crime drama arena he got his start in as a staff writer on FX’s The Shield. Sutter rose to executive producer on the Shawn Ryan drama series before creating Sons of Anarchy for the network and and co-creating spinoff Mayans M.C.
A rep for MGM+ declined comment.
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At MGM+, Sutter’s project is looking to join 1980s crime drama series The Westies, from Chris Brancato, and thriller anthology series American Hostage (working title), from Ryan and Eileen Myers.
Most recently, Sutter created Netflix’s period Western drama The Abandons. The series, which he left shortly before wrap of production, debuted last week with 7.3M views for its opening weekend.
In addition to the noir drama for MGM+, Sutter has Nomad in the works Apple TV. Jason Momoa is attached to star in the project, set in the violent underworld of New Zealand’s outlaw bikers, which Sutter is co-writing with Chris Collins, the latter serving as showrunner.
Sutter is repped by WME and Gendler Kelly.