Robert Zemeckis and Jack Rapke Ink Overall Deal at Fox TV Studios

10:00 AM PDT 8/8/2012 by Lacey Rose

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Bob Zemeckis and Jack Rapke

As part of the pact, the Oscar-winning director and former CAA co-chairman will be tasked with developing and producing series for cable.

Fox Television Studios is getting into business with Robert Zemeckis and Jack Rapke.

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The studio has inked an overall deal with the Academy Award-winning director and his longtime producing partner to develop and produce TV series for cable.

“Bob and Jack are a rare breed, as gifted and accomplished creatively as they are in production,” said Fox TV Studios president David Madden. "We are excited and determined to make them as much of a dynamic brand in television as they are in film."

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He continued: “I take particular personal pleasure in forming this new relationship with Bob, whom I worked with as an executive on his Romancing the Stone, and with Jack, whom I made so many deals with during his years as a superstar directors' agent at CAA. So we’re looking optimistically back to the future.”

Zemeckis, Rapke and partner Steve Starkey formed ImageMovers in 1998. The company -- which inked a two-year first-look film producing deal with Universal in 2011 after its unceremonious exit from Disney -- has been primarily focused on film fare, including Tom Hanks’ Cast Away, Harrison Ford’s What Lies Beneath and motion-capture effort The Polar Express. On the small screen, the banner is behind Showtime’s The Borgias, a costume drama that's in production on its third season. Zemeckis and Rapke serve as executive producers.

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Prior to the formation of ImageMovers, Zemeckis directed such films as Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the Back to the Future trilogy. Up next: Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle’s live-action movie Flight, due in theaters in November.

For its part, Fox TV Studios is best known for producing such cable efforts as USA’s Burn Notice and White Collar, A&E’s The Glades and AMC’s recently canceled The Killing. Zemeckis and Rapke will join other FTVS writer-producers including White Collar's Jeff Eastin and Burn Notice's Matt Nix.

Zemeckis and Rapke are repped by CAA and Gang, Tyre.