Word has just been released to the major outlets that comedic actor John Leguizamo is getting another shot at a pilot for ABC! Word has it that this new pilot, yet untitled, will be based on his life before entering Hollywood and becoming a celebrity and how that has impacted his life as a father, husband and comedian. Leguizamo co-wrote the story and the teleplay with Chris Sheridan (of Family Guy fame).
Check out the story on Deadline:
ABC just ordered a third comedy pilot starring in twelve months. The untitled multi-camera comedy is based on Leguizamo’s life as a husband, father and fish out of water on the upper West Side of New York as reflected in his one-person shows. Woven into this world are his privileged wife, his friends from his life back in the Bronx, his mother and grandfather who try to keep him grounded in his Latin roots, and his own kids who he worries are getting spoiled and losing touch with reality. Leguizamo co-wrote the story for the pilot with former Family Guy executive producer/co-showrunner Chris Sheridan. Sheridan wrote the teleplay and executive produces with Leguizamo, Leguizamo’s longtime manager Jeff Golenberg of the Collective, the company’s Sam Maydew as well as Mandeville’s David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Maria Crenna.
The project has been in the works since early February of last year when Leguizamo signed a deal with ABC and ABC Studios with the intention to develop a comedy inspired by his life for him to star in and executive produce with Golenberg and Mandeville, the company he worked with on Edison. But just a week later, UTA-repped Leguizamo was cast in the ABC/ABC Studios multi-camera pilot The Kings Of Van Nuys (then Only Fools And Horses). Earlier this development season, Sheridan was brought in to Leguizamo’s semi-autobiographical project, which continued to be dormant because, after passing on the Kings Of Van Nuys pilot in May, ABC brass ordered a new, reworked version of the adaptation of the UK series Only For Fools And Horses. The second pilot got a pass in early December, clearing the way for Leguizamo’s other project. This marks ABC’s second multicamera comedy pilot this year, joining recently picked up Divorce: A Love Story.
