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    'Revenge' EPs, 'Deep Impact' Writer Developing Hollywood Murder-Mystery Drama at ABC

    ABC is looking for its next Revenge.

    The network has given script orders to Hollywood & Vines, a Hollywood murder-mystery from writer-director Michael Tolkin and Revenge producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

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    The drama revolves around three sisters from a dynastic Hollywood family whose lives are thrown into panic mode when they each discover how they're connected to and affected to an A-list actress when her body is found lifeless in her pool.

    Author/filmmaker Tolkin will write and executive produce Hollywood & Vines for ABC Studios and Temple Hill, with the latter's Bowen and Godfrey on board as EPs.

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    In addition to co-writing the screenplay for 1998's Deep Impact, Tolkin's credits also include features Nine, Levity and Changing Lanes. The author's 1988 book The Player was also converted for the big-screen with star Tim Robbins. He's repped by WME and Oasis.

    The project comes after soapy mystery thriller Revenge has been a breakout hit for the network, which recently relocated the Emily VanCamp starrer to Sundays for its sophomore season.

    Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit

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