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Walking Dead EP Gale Anne Hurd to executive produce.
With Mad Men and Breaking Bad reaching their final days, AMC has now picked up the Area 51 drama project, based on the best-seller by Annie Jacobsen, as a potential series. The Walking Dead's Gale Anne Hurd will executive produce, confirmed The Hollywood Reporter.
The show centers on the top secret Area 51 installation in southwest Nevada, which has been the target of alien and supernatural conspiracy theories for decades now. Jacobsen interviewed 19 men close to the project as the basis for her book.
We heard back in November that this project was in development, but only now has it found a home on the popular cable network, which also just announced the cancellation of its Seattle-based crime drama The Killing. Area 51 joins AMC's other development properties including Robert Kirkman's Thief of Thieves, The Real All Americans, a potential Goodfellas series, among others.
Todd E. Kessler (The Good Wife) penned the script for the upcoming Area 51 pilot
