Bumping this. Release date set back to September. The writers just got named by Variety as 10 writers to watch in 2016.
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Michael D. Fuller and Graham Gordy- “Quarry”
Patience paid off for Gordy and Fuller. The writing duo pitched their ’70s-set thriller “Quarry” to HBO executives back in 2012, and it will finally premiere this fall on Cinemax.
The slow burn fits an intriguing series that combines the character-driven elements of SundanceTV’s critically acclaimed “Rectify” [on which Gordy and Fuller were writers for the first season] with the gritty action angle Cinemax has turned into a brand.
“We sparked to the tremendous possibilities of this character returning from war and dealing with the effects of that trauma at a time when there wasn’t an acronym for it,” Fuller says of the show’s hero, Vietnam vet Mac Conway [played by Logan Marshall-Green in a breakout performance].
“We were very interested in the era, the early ’70s,” Gordy adds. “The original idea was that this was the best era for feature films of anything we knew.”
“Quarry” is inspired by a series of novels by Max Allan Collins that Fuller found surfing Amazon’s “readers also liked” recommendations. A fan of Collins’ work, including “Road to Perdition,” Fuller took the material to Gordy and the pair discovered the rights were available. Collins ultimately wound up scripting one of the first season’s eight episodes.
Arkansas native Gordy and South Carolina native Fuller met in college through a mutual connection at NYU’s playwriting program. They quickly bonded over a love of college football and television [their first TV project was an AMC pilot set in the world of college ball, that ultimately didn’t go to series].
Fans of TV’s new golden era touchstones like “The Sopranos” and “The Wire,” they’re bringing those influences to “Quarry.” As Fuller say, “It was intriguing to us to say, ‘What if you did something in the way “Mad Men” uses the era so deftly to be a commentary on where we are now, and you have that driving criminal narrative [of] “Breaking Bad” that makes you lean up in your seat because you’re invested in the characters and their journeys.’”