NBC has ordered to pilot “Grimm” from “Angel” writer-producers David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf.
NBC says it’s a “dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist.”
It sounds curiously similar to “17th Precinct,” a just-greenlit NBC pilot from Ronald D. Moore (“Battlestar Galactica”) about cops in a world of magic. (But recall NBC once greenlit both “30 Rock” and “Studio 60” one May.)
It also sounds a bit like the ABC project “Fables,” based on Bill Willingham’s DC/Vertigo graphic novels about fairy-tale characters who find themselves exiled to contemporary New York.
And sounds not unlike Fox’s “Georgia and the Seven Associates,” about a young lawyer banished from a top law firm run by her stepmother and forced to team up with seven quirky lawyers at a storefront legal office. One of her cases dealt with three people whose homes were taken away by something called Wolf Corp.
“Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” published 1812 in Germany and surely one of the most seminal works in all literature, contains 210 stories, including “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Cinderella,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Snow White and Rose Red,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” and of course “The Jew Among Thorns.”
Find all of Entertainment Weekly’s story on the matter here.
