EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Tv’s Robert Atwood has joined Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Leisure as Head of Tv. Filling a task that has been vacant for about two years, he’ll assist shepherd 21 Laps’ TV slate underneath the general deal at Netflix the place the corporate has been based mostly for practically a decade.
Atwood involves 21 Laps from Legendary Tv, the place he spent six years, most just lately as EVP Scripted Sequence, creating new tasks and overseeing the indie studio’s present sequence and animation slate.
Throughout his tenure, he spearheaded Legendary’s Monarch, which launched as AppleTV+’s highest-rated first season of an ongoing sequence on the time, with a number of spinoffs within the Godzilla/Kong Monsterverse at present in growth. He additionally labored on the Dune: Prophecy sequence for HBO, a prequel to Legendary’s tentpole film franchise.
Atwood began his profession in casting on Will & Grace and The New Adventures of Previous Christine earlier than transitioning to expertise administration after which becoming a member of Brillstein Leisure Companions’ manufacturing arm. He additionally served as Director of Improvement and Expertise for TV Land and as VP of TV growth for Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters’ Fazekas & Butters banner.
“I do know I converse for all of us 21 Lapsters after I say how excited I’m to have Robert be part of our group,” mentioned Levy, founding father of 21 Laps. “With an intensive observe document of good and business programming, Robert brings the style, work ethic and populist storytelling instincts which might be the lifeblood of the 21 Laps tradition. His expertise and inventive rigor might be vastly additive to our firm as we proceed to create well-crafted exhibits throughout a spread of tones and genres, for audiences as various because the tales we inform.”
21 Laps is behind Netflix’s mega hit sequence Stranger Issues, which is headed into its fifth and remaining season earlier than spawning potential spinoff sequence. The franchise’s stage manufacturing, Stranger Issues: First Shadow, will open on Broadway on April 22 after a profitable launch in London’s West Finish. The corporate’s Netflix sequence credit additionally embrace restricted sequence The Good Couple and All of the Mild We Can not See in addition to Unsolved Mysteries, Shadow and Bone and I Am Not OK with This.
“I couldn’t be extra excited to affix Shawn, Dan and the wonderful group at 21 Laps,” Atwood mentioned. “They’ve achieved an amazing quantity of success with our companions at Netflix and I look ahead to serving to them proceed to create nice tv and develop the corporate.”
