{"id":10237,"date":"2010-09-16T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2010-09-16T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:16:31","slug":"fox-commits-to-abrams-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/09\/fox-commits-to-abrams-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Commits To Abrams Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>, who co-created the popular <em>Lost<\/em> along with <strong>Jeffrey Lieber<\/strong> and <strong>Damon Lindelof<\/strong>, is working on another project which will be set on an island.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot for <em>Alcatraz<\/em>, the new &#8220;top secret&#8221; project by Abrams, has been picked up by Fox.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/SmallAbrams.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10238\" title=\"SmallAbrams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/SmallAbrams.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Information on the proposed series is scant, with only a one-line description available. Alcatraz will be &#8220;a show about mysteries, secrets and the most infamous prison of all time: Alcatraz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abrams will be executive producer along with lead writer <strong>Elizabeth Sarnaoff <\/strong>and <strong>Bryan Burk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The real Alcatraz, sometimes referred to as the &#8220;Rock&#8221; was a prison until 1963. Famous prisoners such as <strong>Al Capone <\/strong>served time in the prison which claimed to have never had a successful prisoner escape. In 1979, the film <em>Escape from Alcatraz <\/em>documented the 1962 escape attempt of three prisoners. The fate of those three prisoners has never been definitely determined; either they drowned in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay, or they made it to the mainland and vanished into obscurity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Alcatraz-091610.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10239\" title=\"Alcatraz-091610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Alcatraz-091610.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Abrams, who co-created the popular Lost along with Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof, is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3384,3385,2555,2578],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abams","tag-alcatraz","tag-burk","tag-lindelof"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10241,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions\/10241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}