This Is Us’ Jon Huertas Teaming With The Rookie Creator for Fire With Fire Series Adaptation at NBC
Chicago Fire might not be the only blaze on NBC‘s primetime lineup.
The network is developing a drama series based on Candice Fox’s 2023 novel Fire With Fire, which would star This Is Us alum Jon Huertas. According to our sister site Deadline, which first reported the project, Huertas will also executive-produce alongside The Rookie creator Alexi Hawley, while onetime Arrow co-showrunner Wendy Mericle will write the script.
The as-yet-untitled potential series follows Huertas’ Enrique Arroyo, a grizzled undercover cop who forms an unlikely partnership with rookie flame-out Lynette Lamb after two grieving parents hijack an LAPD forensics lab and threaten to destroy evidence until the police find their missing daughter.
The Fire With Fire adaptation would mark a return to NBC for Huertas, who last appeared on the network as Miguel Rivas in all six seasons of family drama This Is Us. Other TV work includes Castle, Generation Kill and Elementary.
Hawley, meanwhile, still shepherds ABC’s cop procedural The Rookie — currently airing its seventh season Tuesdays at 9/8c — and is attached to write and exec-produce a possible second Rookie spinoff in the works at the Alphabet Net. Earlier this month, Hawley’s spy drama The Recruit was cancelled at Netflix after two seasons; in a social media “love letter” to the axed series, Hawley wrote, “Is two seasons and a movie a thing? Cause we’d all be there in a heartbeat. If not, man, we left it all on the field. For those who haven’t yet watched, dive in. I swear to God you’ll enjoy the ride.”
Does NBC’s potential Fire With Fire adaptation pique your interest? Tell us in a comment below.
I hope NBC plans to move Dateline to Saturdays and/or do more scripted in summers, because there isn’t much room for stuff like this next season with basketball taking over Tuesdays & also Sundays after Winter Olympics. And I would love to see some great series like Brilliant Minds get more of a chance. But this could be good.
NBC could have series share a timeslot, 16 episodes for fall, 10-13 episodes for midseason. One Chicago and SVU remain at 22 episodes but everything else could be reduced to make room on the schedule.
Doesn’t help the 3 mid season shows have flopped,
Anything with Jon Huertas intrigues me! Love him!