The Twelve on Fox

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WilliamR

Discussion Starter · Aug 16, 2019

Fox Nabs Jury Drama ‘The Twelve’ From Amanda Green & Elizabeth Banks As Put Pilot

In a competitive situation, Fox has landed drama The Twelve, based on the Belgian series De Twaalf, with a put pilot commitment. The project hails from writer Amanda Green, Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Prods. and Warner Bros. TV where Green and Brownstone are under overall deals.

Written by Green, The Twelve is a character-driven legal drama that examines one high-stakes case each season through the unique perspectives and prejudices of the twelve jurors. As the courtroom narrative unfolds, the jurors’ secrets come to light and their lives unravel, ensnaring the twelve in messy personal and professional consequences. Through their differing interpretations of fact, it becomes clear that justice is never truly blind. The Twelve asks the complex and provocative question: who are we to judge?

Green executive produces alongside Banks and Handelman of Brownstone. Dannah Shinder is co-executive producing. WBTV co-produces with Fox Entertainment.

De Twaalf was created by Bert Van Dael and Sanne Nuyens and developed and produced by Eyeworks Film & TV Drama. (You can watch a trailer with English subtitles below)
This is the second competitive sale and second put pilot commitment for Brownstone so far this broadcast pitch season. It joins Love Me, also based on an European format, which went to ABC. It is written/executive produced by Life Sentence creators Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith. Banks and Handelman are repped by UTA, Untitled and Ziffren Brittenham.

The Twelve marks Green’s first sale under a multi-year overall deal she inked with WBTV a year ago. She most recently served as co-executive producer on WBTV’s NBC drama series Manifest, after having been co-EP on the studio’s Fox drama series Lethal Weapon and NBC’s The Mysteries Of Laura. She previously was a writer-producer on the first 12 seasons of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU. Green is repped by Brandy Rivers at Industry Entertainment.

Van Dael and Nuyens previously created Series Mania’s 2016 Audience Award Winner, Hotel Beau Séjour, which was picked up by Netflix. Their follow-up, The Twelve, played in CanneSeries main competition and won for Best Screenplay.

https://deadline.com/2019/08/fox-ju...a-green-elizabeth-banks-put-pilot-1202669267/

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NetworkTV

· #2 · Aug 16, 2019

So, this would be 12 Angry Men, the series?

Aliens

· #3 · Jul 22, 2020

This is now on Netflix, and it's really good.

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eljaycanuck

· #4 · Jul 26, 2020

^ +1. My wife and I are 3 episodes in and we're really enjoying it. Solid writing, interesting characters and good pacing. The format is interesting: Although the core of the show deals with the murder trial and the exposed flaws of the accused, it's just as much (if not more) about the (secret) lives and (hidden) flaws of the jurors. I hope the rest of the season lives up to what we've enjoyed so far.

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Keenan

· #5 · Jul 26, 2020

^ +2, good call @Aliens, this was excellent, one of the better shows I've seen in a while.

An interview with the show's creators, from Variety,

‘Hotel Beau Séjour’s’ Bert Van Dael and Sanne Nuyens on Canneseries’ ‘The Twelve’

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grittree

· #6 · Jul 26, 2020

Is the show with subtitles or dubbed?

Keenan

· #7 · Jul 26, 2020

grittree said:
Is the show with subtitles or dubbed?

It's filmed in Dutch and has English, Chinese, Spanish as well as Dutch subtitles available. There is also an English dubbed audio track as well.

Aliens

· #8 · Jul 26, 2020

Keenan said:
^ +2, good call @Aliens , this was excellent, one of the better shows I've seen in a while.

An interview with the show's creators, from Variety,

‘Hotel Beau Séjour’s’ Bert Van Dael and Sanne Nuyens on Canneseries’ ‘The Twelve’

Hotel Beau Séjour looks really good and I can't wait until it's released. I have it on Netflix's reminder.

Ending spoiler.

From E2 on, I was sure Stefaan was the killer. So many of these have twists and turns, and like a lot of the books I read, they lead you this or that way to try and fool you. Because of that, that Frie was the actual killer came as a big surprise to me.

Keenan

· #9 · Jul 26, 2020

Aliens said:
Hotel Beau Séjour looks really good and I can't wait until it's released. I have it on Netflix's reminder.

Ending spoiler.

From E2 on, I was sure Stefaan was the killer. So many of these have twists and turns, and like a lot of the books I read, they lead you this or that way to try and fool you. Because of that, that Frie was the actual killer came as a big surprise to me.

Yeah,

I felt there was something off with her the whole show but finding out she was the double-murderer was a bit of a surprise. I also thought at times that Steffan was the baby killer but also that Marc had killed his daughter by accident and covered it up.

Aliens

· #10 · Jul 26, 2020

Keenan said:
Yeah,

I felt there was something off with her the whole show but finding out she was the double-murderer was a bit of a surprise. I also thought at times that Steffan was the baby killer but also that Marc had killed his daughter by accident and covered it up.

I thought Stefaan found out Brechtje lied to him about whose baby it was and killed her because of it. Maybe after one of their many parties where he got so wasted and may not have remembered it.

I didn't think he killed the baby intentionally, it was accidental, but only intended to frame Frie in order to get her out of their lives.

The court proceedings were nothing like what we have here.

Some funny moments.

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crabboy

· #11 · Jul 26, 2020 (Edited)

PHP:

Keenan said:
It's filmed in Dutch and has English, Chinese, Spanish as well as Dutch subtitles available. There is also an English dubbed audio track as well.

I'm watching this on Netflix. It's interesting that the English dub track is different (sometimes contradictory) from the subtitles.

Keenan

· #12 · Jul 26, 2020

Aliens said:
I thought Stefaan found out Brechtje lied to him about whose baby it was and killed her because of it. Maybe after one of their many parties where he got so wasted and may not have remembered it.

I didn't think he killed the baby intentionally, it was accidental, but only intended to frame Frie in order to get her out of their lives.

The court proceedings were nothing like what we have here. Some funny moments.

Yes,

The different structure of how the court worked was interesting. The role the three judges play in 7/5 decisions was very interesting.

Aliens

· #13 · Jul 26, 2020

crabboy said:
I'm watching this on Netflix. It's interesting that the English dub track is different (sometimes contradictory) from the subtitles.

Which is one of the reasons I can't do dubs. It pulls me completely out of the scene and sounds so phony. Compared to some other ones where the dialogue moves along very quickly, I found this one very easy to read and watch.

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Keenan

· #14 · Jul 26, 2020

crabboy said:
PHP:

I'm watching this on Netflix. It's interesting that the English dub track is different (sometimes contradictory) from the subtitles.

I didn't watch the dubbed version so I can't really comment. I don't ever watch dubbed versions, in fact, I've watched so much subtitled content that I don't even think about it anymore as it just comes naturally. But yes, I did notice that on just the short section I watched when checking if there was a dubbed version for @grittree.

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crabboy

· #15 · Jul 26, 2020 (Edited)

Does anyone here speak Dutch? Which (if either) is accurate?

The more I watch the more it seems that someone doing the subtitles wanted to "clean up" or "De-intensify" the original Dutch.

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