EXCLUSIVE: Drew Lindo (Quantum Leap, Reign) is developing a TV adaptation of the Nichole Chase novel The Accidental Assassin with Azie Tesfai (Supergirl) for Amazon MGM Studios.
The Accidental Assassin follows Ava Dumont, who always plays it safe, until she goes to London and encounters Owen Walker, a professional assassin with abandonment issues… and accidentally kills his target. Now these two polar opposites are forced to work together in a partnership that blurs the line between right, wrong, and the messy bits in between.
“After meeting Azie and Drew, I knew they were the perfect team to adapt my book for the screen. They completely understood the world I worked so hard to build and the characters I cherish. I’m beyond thrilled with their plans and can’t wait to see it come to fruition,” shared Chase in a statement to Deadline.
Lindo will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the series, with Tesfai writing and executive producing. Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle) and Adrian Banyard (Black Mirror).
The Accidental Assassin is the first novel in “The Assassins” book series. Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with over fourteen published novels, novellas, and short stories. She is repped by MGMT Entertainment and Rebecca Friedman Literary.
Lindo is currently a co-executive producer on the Amazon / MGM series Stargate. Before, he served as co-executive producer on NBC’s revival of Quantum Leap, working under Martin Gero and Dean Georgaris. Lindo, who is of Panamanian descent, began his career on HBO’s Hung with Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson. He went on to rise through the staffing ranks across multiple seasons of Reign and The 100 for the CW. Lindo is repped by Verve, Echo Lake Entertainment, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.
Tesfai is an actor, writer, and producer best known for her role on The CW’s Supergirl, where she became the first Ethiopian actor to portray a superhero on screen. During the show’s final season, she co-wrote an episode. Tesfai recently sold her original pilot, The Chase, to Universal Television for NBC and is developing various TV projects, including the scripted Sheba, and two unscripted projects: a docuseries with Amplify Pictures and Aldis Hodge, and a dating series with Issa Rae’s Hoorae. Tesfai is repped by Untitled Entertainment, Kings Peak Entertainment, and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP.
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