Invasive At CBS — “Unthinkable”
I have an announcement to make.
*opens mouth*
*ants pour out*
*ants collectively spell a message*
FBI Drama From Jerry Bruckheimer TV & ‘MacGyver’ EP David Slack Set At CBS
*ants return to mouth*
*maw snaps shut*
So, if you click that link, you’ll see a couple notable paragraphs:
CBS has put in development Unthinkable, an FBI crime drama from Jerry Bruckheimer Television and MacGyver executive producer David Slack. CBS Television Studios, where both JBTV and Slack are based, is the studio.
Written and executive produced by Slack, Unthinkable, based on Chuck Wendig’s 2016 novel Invasive, is about a brilliant futurist, trained to see danger around every corner, who’s recruited by an uncharacteristically optimistic FBI Agent to identify the threats only she can see coming – and stop them before it’s too late.
So, that’s the news.
It is very exciting news.
Technically, Invasive was optioned over a year ago. But, it wasn’t announced, so I sat on it, as is the way. (I may or may not be sitting on some news regarding another series, too.) And nothing was really happening, far as I knew —
Until David Slack and Bruckheimer TV got involved.
Then it got more serious.
Slack sent me the pitch for Unthinkable — which builds off of Hannah as a character, as the basis for the whole series — and it was a fucking grand slam, The Natural-style rain of glass and electricity. It’s the kind of pitch where I read it and was like, “Okay, this goes above and beyond the book, and if this doesn’t become a TV show that I can watch, I will kick over my TV in rage.” It’s that good. (Slack knows his way around a pitch. I’ve read pitches, and I’ve read pitches, and this was weaponized art. Before I day I aspire to be half that good.) Anyway! Point is, it’s jumped some hurdles, but while this is all very excited, I will caution you (and more me!) that this doesn’t mean it’s getting made into a show — just that it’s progressing forward, that it has amazing people behind it, and that there’s at least a shot. But it remains an option, so the wind blows the way the wind blows.
Still, we can all cross our fingers and toes.
If you haven’t read the book, nab it where books are sold.
Or, the e-book is still $3.99 for reasons unknown: Amazon | B&N | iBooks
Oh, and since someone might ask — will there be more Hannah Stander on bookshelves? Answer unclear, ask again later. We did not work out a deal with Harper for more books, but if a TV show really does come out of this (and it probably won’t!), then I’d not say no to writing more of her adventures, but who knows?
October 14, 2017 @ 3:02 PM
Excellent–a good reason to smile today.
October 14, 2017 @ 3:02 PM
Congratulations!
October 14, 2017 @ 3:05 PM
Congratulations! So well-deserved! Your stories really speak to a lot of people and I’m glad to see them take that step to reaching an even wider audience. I’m really looking forward to seeing this series!
October 14, 2017 @ 3:07 PM
Yay–congratulations!!!
October 14, 2017 @ 3:09 PM
Congrats, Chuck! That’s a show I’d want to watch too.
October 14, 2017 @ 3:12 PM
Jesus, man, congratufuckinglations!
October 14, 2017 @ 3:16 PM
Day to go! You earned it. You deserve it!
October 14, 2017 @ 3:18 PM
I am (virtually) crossing everything that can be crossed. I can’t do it literally for that would make a lot of stuff rather difficult. But I do hooe-so-hard this happens.
October 14, 2017 @ 3:19 PM
Congrats, Chuck! I finally have a reason to watch CBS. 🙂
October 14, 2017 @ 3:42 PM
All fingers and paws crossed for you, Chuck!
Also, if it does make it to the serial screen, I hope beyond hope that they have an AI named Gracie….
October 14, 2017 @ 3:49 PM
Congratulations, Chuck!
October 14, 2017 @ 4:29 PM
That’s brilliant, Chuck! I’m so pleased for you. Well done, and fingers crossed! 😀
October 14, 2017 @ 4:33 PM
Fingers & toes crossed for ya, Chuck! Such exciting news!
October 14, 2017 @ 4:34 PM
Great news. To have them considering it must be mind blowing. I loved the book and sure do hope we’ll hear more from Hannah. You da man! In our house when someone needs luck and encouragement we light blue candles so consider them lit for you. Congratulations to you and the family.
October 14, 2017 @ 4:50 PM
Hell yeah! Loved the book, will be watching for the series.
October 14, 2017 @ 4:55 PM
OH WOW! This was my first book of yours that I read! And I loved it. Congratulations!!!
October 14, 2017 @ 4:59 PM
Excellent news! Hope the series comes to fruition (one of my books got to the point of scripting for a 6-part documentary series and then foundered… sigh…) Incidentally, ‘Invasive’ is for sale, in paperback, in New Zealand bookshops (Whitcoulls Lambton Quay, which is their flagship store for the chain).
October 14, 2017 @ 6:04 PM
Crossing my fingers for you, Chuck.
October 14, 2017 @ 6:26 PM
Congrats!
October 14, 2017 @ 6:28 PM
What a wonderful achievement Chuck. Well done and fingers crossed that ‘yes’ is still ‘yes’ right to the finish line.
October 14, 2017 @ 6:47 PM
Yeeeeehaw!
October 14, 2017 @ 7:16 PM
Way to go dude! 😀
October 14, 2017 @ 7:40 PM
And I always thought one of your ‘twisted’ stories should land here! Congrats!
October 14, 2017 @ 8:01 PM
Well deserved! You are crazy talented, as well as just plain crazy.
October 14, 2017 @ 8:24 PM
Awesome news, congratulations!
October 14, 2017 @ 8:39 PM
$$$
October 14, 2017 @ 9:01 PM
What a wonderful accomplishment. Congratulations Chuck and all the best to you (bought yearbook today). @sheilamgood at Cow Pasture Chronicles
October 15, 2017 @ 3:58 AM
Congratulations! will watch for it and also buy the book. because….books. 🙂
October 15, 2017 @ 5:23 AM
Yippee UR so helpful to us prepublished. Fingers crossed.
October 15, 2017 @ 5:48 AM
Exciting news, indeed. Though you are probably right to be cautious, there seems to be an encouraging groundswell of activity here. Crossing fingers and holding thumbs for you
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October 15, 2017 @ 9:12 AM
Awesome! Good luck as you move forward.
October 15, 2017 @ 10:05 AM
Congratulations, Chuck! Hope that you made oodles of $$, and looking forward to seeing the show. Reading Invasive now so hope that they do it justice.
October 15, 2017 @ 10:05 AM
WOW!!! Hurrah!!! Congratulations, Chuck!!!
October 15, 2017 @ 10:10 AM
Fingers crossed!! Yay!
October 15, 2017 @ 10:38 AM
Congrats, Chuck!! I’m rooting for you!
October 15, 2017 @ 10:49 AM
Fantastic!
October 15, 2017 @ 2:01 PM
Cool!!! 😀 … all digits crossed. 😀
October 15, 2017 @ 4:13 PM
Somewhere in the lithosphere, Queen Ant cries out, “Let them eat bodies!” Viewer’s cringe and Chuck fans roar! Read the book if you haven’t yet. You will never again step on an ant hill!
October 15, 2017 @ 6:53 PM
Awesome! Fingers, toes and eyes crossed. 😀
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October 16, 2017 @ 3:09 AM
Congratulations, good sir! I am currently volunteering my time and considerable talent to teaching in Moldova but you have inspired me to break out the manuscript and get back to it. Now keep writing!
October 16, 2017 @ 11:40 AM
Congratulations, Chuck!
October 16, 2017 @ 2:01 PM
Congratulations – that sounds like an excellent TV series.
October 17, 2017 @ 5:28 AM
Top job! Woot!
October 17, 2017 @ 1:51 PM
Super exciting news! Congratulations!
October 18, 2017 @ 10:26 AM
Congrats, Chuck! Fantastic news!
October 19, 2017 @ 10:20 AM
Congrats!
November 22, 2017 @ 2:16 AM
Wow, this is very exciting news! I’ll try not to get my hopes up too much, but it’s exciting nevertheless.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop, man. *here’s to hoping that this becomes a thing*