KILGORE & FRANCO LAUNCH CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS SERIES

As first reported in Variety, Evan Kilgore and writing partner Samuel Franco have signed on to write and Executive Produce a limited television series revolving around the Cuban Missile Crisis, in a partnership with Adam Goodman's Dichotomy Creative Group.

Based on Sheldon Stern's bestselling nonfiction book, The Week the World Stood Still, The series focuses on the events not only through the eyes of President Kennedy and his brother, Bobby, but through those that surrounded them, namely Associate Press Secretary and White House speechwriter, Andrew T. Hatcher (at the time, the highest ranking African American in the West Wing) and Presidential secretary Jill Cowen, whose transcription of the ExComm tapes gave her a front-row seat to a world on the brink of destruction.

Franco and Kilgore will write and executive produce the series. Goodman will also executive produce along with Matt Skiena and Peter Eskelsen. The search is currently on for a director.