Alison Brie Leads Thrilling New FX Witness Protection Pilot
"Clipped" creator Gina Welch has also joined the project as co-showrunner.
G.L.O.W. and Community star Alison Brie has been tapped as the lead for an upcoming witness protection based pilot from FX.
What’s Happening:
- Deadline reports that Alison Brie has joined a new FX pilot from Hannah Fidell and Gina Welch that sees a violent confrontation drive a high-end D.C. madam to turn on her partner and enter witness protection in seaside Maine with her adolescent daughter.
- The project was previously revealed in 2023 with The Sopranos creator David Chase attached, although he has since stepped away from the project.
- Welch, creator of FX’s Clipped, now joins Fidell as co-showrunner, writer and executive producer. Fidell will also direct the pilot.
- Brie is perhaps best known for her roles in Community and G.L.O.W., and will appear in this summer’s horror movie Together, alongside her real-life husband, Dave Franco. She also recently wrapped production on Mattel’s Masters of the Universe as Evil-Lyn.
More FX News:
- Following the premiere of its fourth season, FX has renewed hit series The Bear for a fifth season.
- Fans of Welcome to Wrexham will definitely want to catch the new spin-off series, Necaxa, where Eva Longoria embarks on a mission to revive the spirit of Club Necaxa, one of Mexico's oldest football clubs.
- Very Young Frankenstein, a prequel comedy series based on Mel Brooks’ classic 1974 film, Young Frankenstein, is close to getting a pilot order at FX.