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Charlize Theron is preparing to tell a Viking drama.
The actress-producer has sold The Clan to ABC, marking the Oscar winner’s third sale this development season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
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The Clan is described as a sweeping drama set in the Highlands of medieval Scotland, where the great clans battle one another — and the Viking invaders.
Hotel Rwanda writer-director-producer Terry George — who picked up a writing Oscar nomination for the Don Cheadle starrer — is on board to write, direct and executive produce the project.
Theron will exec produce through her ABC Studios-based Denver & Delilah shingle. The sale marks the Monster actress’ latest move this development season and first at ABC. She’s also attached to executive produce a modern-day take on Hatfields & McCoys with Eagle Eye‘s John Glenn and family drama Holiday with Californication‘s Gina Fattore, both set up at NBC.
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Theron has been an active producer, with credits including features Young Adult, Sleepwalking and Monster. She has a handful of features in development as well as a small-screen effort — Mind Hunter, with David Fincher — in development at HBO.
On the big screen, Theron is in preproduction on Mad Max: Fury Road and in talks to produce and potentially star in a drama about slain war reporter Marie Colvin.
George, who picked up an Oscar this year for the live-action short The Shore and was nominated for adapting In the Name of the Father with Jim Sheridan, is repped by WME.
Theron is repped by WME and Hansen Jacobson.
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