“Grease: Live” director Thomas Kail and producer Marc Platt have signed new deals with Twentieth Century Fox Television, Fox TV Group Chairmen and CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman announced on Monday.
Platt’s new first-look deal gives the studio first look at any projects, live action or scripted, that Platt, a veteran film and Broadway producer, develops for television.
Kail, who directed “Grease: Live” for Fox, as well as the smash hit musical “Hamilton,” will set up a new production company under Twentieth Century Fox Television, through which Kail will develop, supervise and potentially direct television projects both for broadcast and cable.