Alison Brie is ready for the lead function in an FX drama pilot that hails from Hannah Fidell and Gina Welch.

The official logline states, “A violent confrontation drives a high-end DC madame (Brie) to activate her accomplice and enter witness safety in seaside Maine together with her adolescent daughter.”

The venture was first introduced in March 2023 with a pilot dedication. On the time, David Chase was hooked up as co-creator and govt producer, because the present was primarily based on one in every of Chase’s beforehand unproduced scripts of which Fidell had written a up to date take. In accordance with a person with information of the scenario, Chase exited the venture resulting from scheduling conflicts with a movie he’s prepping.

Fidell and Welch function writers, govt producers, and co-showrunners. Fidell may also direct. Nicole Lambert of Riverain Photos stays onboard as an govt producer. FX Productions is the studio.

Brie earned sturdy approval for her work on the AMC drama “Mad Males,” on which she starred as Trudy Campbell. She would then go on to star within the beloved NBC sitcom “Group,” which is at the moment prepping a followup film at Peacock. She subsequently performed lead roles within the Netflix animated sequence “BoJack Horseman” and the live-action present “GLOW.” Her work in “GLOW” earned her two Golden Globe nominations. Her movie credit embrace “Someone I Used to Know,” which starred in, produced and co-wrote together with her husband, Dave Franco. Different movies on her resume are “The Lego Film” franchise, “Promising Younger Girl,” and the upcoming “Masters of the Universe” film.

Fidell made her characteristic directorial debut with “A Instructor,” which premiered on the 2013 Sundance Movie Competition, with Fidell additionally having written produced the movie. She subsequently tailored it right into a restricted sequence of the identical identify at FX with Kate Mara and Nick Robinson within the lead roles. Fidell served as author, director, showrunner, and govt producer on the present. She has additionally written and directed the movies “6 Years” and “A Lengthy Dumb Highway,” the latter of which she additionally produced. She lately directed episodes of reveals like “Pam & Tommy,” “The Act,” and “Informal.”

Welch was the creator, govt producer, and showrunner on “Clipped, the FX miniseries about former Los Angeles Clippers proprietor Donald Sterling and coach Doc Rivers. Welch additionally labored on the FX sequence “Beneath the Banner of Heaven” in addition to reveals like “The Terror” and “Station Eleven.”

Brie is repped by WME, Rise Administration, and Sloane Supply. Fidell is repped by Untitled, UTA and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Welch is repped by Untitled, CAA and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett, & Kole.

FX has quite a few pilots within the works at current, together with the lately introduced drama “Disinherited” from Peter Gould, the “Snowfall” spinoff starring Gail Bean and Isaiah John, and the drama “Seven Sisters” starring Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti.