Filming is underway in Florida on A Land Remembered, a TV series adaptation of the best-selling historical novel by Patrick D. Smith. Philip Ettinger (First Reformed, Bupkis), Lily McInerny (Hulu’s Tell Me Lies, Palm Trees and Power Lines) and William Catlett (A Thousand and One, Abigail) star in the $25M production, written and directed by Todd Wiseman, Jr. (The School Duel) and co-created by Wiseman, Jr. and Christa Boarini (The Old Ways). The first season consists of four hourlong episodes, which puts its per-episode budget at the high-end of an average streaming drama series.
Dakota Daulby (Longlegs, Shōgun), Clayton Royal Johnson (Stranger Things, Wildflower), Dallas Roberts (The Walking Dead, Monster), Neil Sandilands (The Flash, Sweet Tooth) also star in the show, which has received $500,000 each from the State of Florida and Film Tampa Bay.
A Land Remembered chronicles three generations of the MacIvey family in frontier Florida from the mid-19th to the 20th century, as they turn swamp cows, citrus, and unwanted land into a multi-generational commercial empire so successfully, it results in the eventual decline of the natural place they so loved.
The production features Civil War battle scenes and employs over 600 livestock for cattle drives through palmettos and palm trees.
The series has been privately financed and the plan is to take it to the upcoming MIPCOM and TIFF markets, with the door open to more seasons. A Land Remembered is executive produced by Wiseman, through his Tampa-based company Tobias LLC and Colin Herlihy (Evil Lives Here), with Florida cattle rancher Cathlee Tomkow, Peter Gold (Thena), Javier Gonzalez (Swallow), Oscar Boyson (Uncut Gems), and Carlton Ward, Jr. (Path of the Panther) producing. Marcos Hastrup (Simon of the Mountain, 2026 Cannes Palme d’Or short film winner Para Los Contrincantes) is the cinematographer.
“We wanted to show what we could do here in Florida — what we’re calling the ‘Free State of Film,’ is totally untethered from Hollywood. I describe what we’re making as Yellowstone with a little bit more of a Train Dreams aesthetic,” Wiseman said. “The appetite for the series here had been building for decades because of the popularity of the novel.”
The series comes more than 40 years after Smith’s A Land Remembered was published in 1984 by Pineapple Press. The historical fiction book remains very popular, especially in the Sunshine State where it is taught in schools.
Gold and Boyson are coming off Our Hero Balthazar, released through Gold’s WG Pictures and written and directed by Boyson. The independent film hit a $33,138 per-theater average when it opened March 27th on one screen at the Regal Union Square in New York.
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