USA's 'Burn Notice' Prequel Starring Bruce Campbell Is A Go; Jeffrey Donovan To Direct
By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 30, 2010 @ 1:25pm PST
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EXCLUSIVE: USA has given a formal green light to the Burn Notice movie prequel starring Bruce Campbell, which will be directed by Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan. The two will also executive produce with Burn Notice creator Matt Nix, who wrote the movie, and the series exec producer Mikkel Bondesen. The untitled two-hour film, which was announced at this year's Comic-Con, will begin shooting in January on location in Bogota, Colombia for a premiere in Spring 2011. Burn Notice, which remains the top-rated scripted series on basic cable, has wrapped production on Season 4, and filming on Season 5 is slated to begin shortly after the movie finishes shooting.

Here are more details about the Fox TV Studios-produced prequel. It is set in late 2005 and focuses on Sam Axe's (Campbell) last mission as a Navy SEAL. It begins after a faction of Colombian rebels makes trouble for the locally stationed military platoon, with Lieutenant Commander Axe being sent down to investigate. As the mission unfolds, Sam begins to uncover the dark secrets of the area, learning the truth about sacrifice, deception, and ultimately what’s worth fighting for.

The idea to do a Campbell-centered Burn Notice movie offshoot originated a year and a half ago when Burn Notice made its Comic-Con debut. "We saw Bruce Campbell as the Bruce Springsteen of Comic Con," USA's president of original programming Jeff Wachtel said. "We saw the spectacular explosive fan reaction and realized that, in Bruce, we had not only a great actor but also a pop culture icon." USA executives decided to take advantage of that, and Nix quickly came up with the basic outline for a movie about Axe's back story that had not been explored on the series. The idea was put on the back burner while Nix was busy with Burn Notice and The Good Guys until Wachtel made the surprising informal announcement at Comic-Con in July. Donovan got the directing gig on the movie after impressing USA executives with his directorial debut on the Made Man episode of Burn Notice, which aired this summer.

Could the Burn Notice film spawn a series of a movies or a spinoff series starring Campbell? "It is a one-off," Wachtel said. "We’ll see how it goes."


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Wow

Just got done watching Thursdays Episode - It was Great

Can't wait for the 2hr Season Finale

Are we getting there already?

This week. It seems like the second "half" of this season went fairly quickly.

Definitely. I knew Vaughn would be too obvious and that clip from the previews tried to mislead us into thinking Simon would be involved...but Brennan was a shot outta left field.

I wonder if Larry comes back for the 2hr episode...fight sociopathy with sociopathy.

Truth. But I called Marv dying as soon as they drove up. :D

Haha! No doubt about it. Jesse needed more of a reason to be with the crew...something other than that "will they/won't they" crap that was all but set up between him and Fiona.

Hehe, i dont see many tv shows adding another person when the show is so successful. Usually they try to add someone new if they are borderline in the cancellation index. Jesse is a good fit for them though, the young crazy one that works really well with Fiona's crazy ass.

Reminder the finale is on at 8 tonight not 9.
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HELL YEAH!!! o:-)

He's here for the completely opposite reason I suspected, but still...

I missed the opening 6 minutes. What is Larry doing there?

Brennan brought Larry in to "help" Michael with the killings...don't worry, though, it'll be on again in an hour so you can see it again.

Very good way to end everything...now it seems about time to jump the shark and give Burn Notice one last awesome season, with the last finale being our epilogue.

FYI, it's already been in production for 2 more seasons.

Damn good finale

Too bad they didn't give us a short wait like they did this last time around... :(

...I hope one of the two doesn't suck.