ABC Orders Drama Pilot From Independence Day Director

Roland Emmerich ABC has bought a drama pilot from Independence Day and 2012 director Roland Emmerich, Variety reviews. The project, ABC's first drama pilot pick-up for your 2012-2013 TV season, occur in NY through the presidential race of 2012. Throughout this time around around, a young astrophysics student finds out his future lies not inside the section of science, but roughly paradise and hell. ABC approaching deal to obtain Kirstie Alley comedy pilot Emmerich written the script with 2012 film author Harald Kloser and may direct the pilot. He'll executive-produce with Mark Gordon (Criminal Minds) and Nicholas Pepper. Emmerich co-created rapid-were living TV alien invasion series The Client, which went for 13 episodes on Fox in 1997.