ABC Developing Series About Yale's Secret Skull and Bones Society

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Anyone like The Skulls? You know, with Joshua Jackson and Paul Walker?

The 2000 film centered on some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Yale’s famous Skull And Bones secret society, whose prominent former members include Presidents George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, Senator John Kerry, and Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti. Now, ABC is looking to explore the mysterious society with a bit of a closer eye.

The network is developing The Order, a drama project based on Alexandra Robbins’ nonfiction book The Secrets Of The Tomb: Skull And Bones, The Ivy League And The Hidden Paths Of Power, depicting two separate timelines: "a young woman at Yale, 10 years ago, tapped as a member of an ultra-prestigious secret society, and the same woman in present day as a respected FBI agent and in the midst of the biggest case of her life, which she discovers is linked to her past in the secret society."

The script will be written by Dean Widenmann (of the CBS pilot Back), with The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Michael Prevett and Jeremy Bell executive producing alongside Widenmann.

Hopefully, the show will be better than The Skulls. I love some Joshua Jackson, but that movie was straight-up "meh".

Via: Deadline