Exclusive: Cobra Kai co-executive producers Joe Piarulli and Luan Thomas have signed a multi-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, the studio behind the popular Netflix series.
Under the pact, the duo will continue to render co-ep services on Cobra Kai in addition to developing new series for cable and streaming services.
Piarulli and Thomas already have a high-profile project in development at Sony TV, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, a limited series based on Walter Byers’ book Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes. They are writing the adaptation, which follows Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA, who transformed a toothless non-profit into one of the most profitable organizations in history, while examining the cost of turning college sports into a lucrative business enterprise. Piarulli and Thomas executive produce with Cobra Kai creators/exec producers/showrunners Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, Sharon Hall, Jon Steinberg as well as Lesli Linka Glatter...
Under the pact, the duo will continue to render co-ep services on Cobra Kai in addition to developing new series for cable and streaming services.
Piarulli and Thomas already have a high-profile project in development at Sony TV, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, a limited series based on Walter Byers’ book Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes. They are writing the adaptation, which follows Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA, who transformed a toothless non-profit into one of the most profitable organizations in history, while examining the cost of turning college sports into a lucrative business enterprise. Piarulli and Thomas executive produce with Cobra Kai creators/exec producers/showrunners Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, Sharon Hall, Jon Steinberg as well as Lesli Linka Glatter...
- 6/16/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television has put in development Unsportsmanlike Conduct, a limited series based on Walter Byers’ book Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes. The project hails from Cobra Kai co-executive producers Joe Piarulli and Luan Thomas, series creators/exec producers/showrunners Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, & Hayden Schlossberg and their Counterbalance Entertainment, Sharon Hall (Euphoria) and Jon Steinberg (The Rookie). Prolific, Emmy-nominated TV director Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland) is set to direct and executive produce.
Written by Piarulli and Thomas, Unsportsmanlike Conduct follows Walter Byers, the first executive director of the National College Athletic Association. In the tone of The Big Short and Wolf of Wall Street, Unsportsmanlike Conduct will span three decades, during which Byers transformed a toothless non-profit into one of the most profitable organizations in history while examining the cost of turning college sports into a lucrative business enterprise. .
Piarulli and Thomas executive produce with Glatter. Hall via her Mom De Guerre Productions,...
Written by Piarulli and Thomas, Unsportsmanlike Conduct follows Walter Byers, the first executive director of the National College Athletic Association. In the tone of The Big Short and Wolf of Wall Street, Unsportsmanlike Conduct will span three decades, during which Byers transformed a toothless non-profit into one of the most profitable organizations in history while examining the cost of turning college sports into a lucrative business enterprise. .
Piarulli and Thomas executive produce with Glatter. Hall via her Mom De Guerre Productions,...
- 9/16/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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