Rafe Judkins has signed an overall deal with Paramount Television Studios, Variety has learned. Under the deal, Judkins will create, develop, and produce original scripted series for the studio. We cannot wait to build with him.” Judkins most recently developed the Amazon Prime Video series “The Wheel of Time,” on which he also served as executive producer and showrunner.
Based on the fantasy book series created by Robert Jordan, the show was an epic fantasy drama featuring Rosamund Pike in a lead role. It aired for three seasons at Prime Video between 2021 and 2025. I’m honored and excited to be in at the ground floor for what Matt and his team are building.” Aside from his work on “The Wheel of Time,” Judkins is known for working on shows like “Agents of SHIELD” at ABC, “Chuck” for NBC, and the Christian Slater series “My Own Worst Enemy,” also for NBC.
In film, he wrote the screenplay for the “Uncharted” adaptation that starred Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg as well as the upcoming Amazon feature “Foreign Relations” starring Glen Powell. He is repped by CAA, Kaplan Perrone, and Hansen Jacobsen Teller. This marks the latest overall deal Paramount TV Studios has entered into since it relaunched in the wake of the Skydance-Paramount merger.
Paramount also a deal with Liz Tigelaar across Paramount TV Studios and CBS Studios, while both Issa Rae and Jon M. Chu have Paramount deals across TV and film.
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