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"The West Wing writer Michael Oates Palmer has sold a new drama pilot to NBC. The currently untitled project is being described as a contemporary take on classic 1942 film Casablanca, according to Deadline. The potential series will follow an American ambassador who resides in a corrupt Eastern European country. When a visiting Congressman is killed, the US responds with a military operation, but the wife of the general in charge is a former lover of the ambassador. Palmer wrote extensively for The West Wing throughout the show&amp;#039;s fourth and fifth seasons and has also worked on CBS series Shark and AMC&amp;#039;s Rubicon. His new drama will be produced by McG&amp;#039;s company Wonderland Sound and Vision. Other drama projects in development at NBC include a modern-day update of Frankenstein, a wrestling show produced by Dwayne &amp;#039;The Rock&amp;#039; Johnson and an adaptation of 1984 film Romancing the Stone. &amp;gt; NBC to remake Israeli drama Pillars of Smoke? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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