EXCLUSIVE: As AMC Studios expands its external ambitions, it has signed Mark Lafferty to an overall deal.
Lafferty, showrunner on AMC’s Talamasca: The Secret Order and creator of Disney’s The Right Stuff, has launched his own production company Steady State Productions, which will be based at AMC Studios.
As part of the two-year pact, Lafferty will develop and produce series for AMC and other broadcasters and streamers.
He has also hired former Condé Nast executive Lajoie St. George as Head of Development. St. George, who will oversee scripted development for the shingle, was VP, TV and Film at the studio arm of the Vanity Fair and GQ publisher. Before that, she was Head of Development at 7th Sun Productions, the production company founded by Yara Shahidi and her mother Keri Salter- Shahidi, and worked at NBCUniversal International Studios.
Lafferty’s other credits include AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire, WGN’s Manhattan, Nat Geo’s Genius: Einstein. He also wrote and directed indie comedy Lower Learning and directed segments for Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The move comes as AMC Studios is rapidly expanding its outside work. Last week, the company struck a major co-production deal with Netflix to jointly develop and produce series, leading with drama series Bannerman from Shane Black and Craig Silverstein.
It also landed a Colman Domingo-led thriller series – The Headlands House – at the streamer.
Its biggest non-AMC project is Silo, which has been renewed for a fourth and final season at Apple TV.
Last year, Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios, said “We are able to produce for third parties when it’s beneficial to us and makes financial sense. We do have a lot of interest in our studio content, so we’re going to be strategic and opportunistic as we go forward.”
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