EXCLUSIVE: Anthony E. Zuiker, the creator of the massively profitable CSI TV franchise, has signed with boutique administration agency Literate.
This marks a uncommon new addition to Zuiker’s close-knit illustration staff, nicknamed affectionately by the writer-producer “Group Zuiker,” who has been shaping his profession and model for greater than twenty years.
It follows the January dying of Zuiker’s beloved supervisor of over 25 years, Margaret Riley, most lately of Lighthouse Leisure, who handed away from most cancers on the age of 58.
In a transferring tribute for Deadline on the time, Zuiker recalled how Riley signed Zuiker on his thirtieth birthday, 8/17/1998, when he was nonetheless making an attempt to interrupt into Hollywood. Serving to him land early writing gigs that led to CSI, Riley additionally took Zuiker to the expertise businesses, with him touchdown at CAA with Joe Cohen, and launched him to leisure lawyer Kevin Yorn. Each are nonetheless members of “Group Zuiker,” with Cohen guiding the creator within the technique of discovering a brand new supervisor, which resulted in Zuiker going with Literate companions Elizabeth Newman, A.B. Fischer and Dennis Kim.
“Earlier than my beloved supervisor Margaret Riley handed, she used to say, ‘We have now much more to do collectively.’ I imagine in my coronary heart of hearts, she’d need me to proceed,” Zuiker stated. “I requested my pricey good friend and longtime CAA agent Joe Cohen for ‘the perfect of the perfect.’ Elizabeth Newman was on that brief record. She, and the staff at Literate, are essentially the most passionate and engaged group I’ve ever been round. They’re the brand new ‘Group Zuiker.’ We’ll all work collectively to proceed to interrupt new floor in tech and gaming and inform nice world tales in Margaret’s honor.”
On Zuiker’s illustration staff, the Literate trio joins CAA brokers Cohen, Jeff Jacobs, Carly Fromm, and Harley Copen, lawyer Yorn of Yorn Levine Barnes Krintzman, enterprise supervisor Harley Neuman of Neuman + Associates and publicist Jonalyn Morris.
“We’re thrilled to be the most recent members of Group Zuiker,” Newman stated. “Anthony’s visionary storytelling and indefatigable ambition embodies the kind of creator we like to accomplice with, and all of us at Literate are wanting ahead to working alongside him on this new chapter.”
Teaming with Jerry Bruckheimer Tv, Zuiker created CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which launched in 2000 on CBS and spawned 4 spinoff collection, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, CSI: Cyber, and CSI: Vegas, airing slightly below 900 episodes so far and garnering two Guinness World Data.
Zuiker is closely concerned within the storytelling and day-to-day writing operations for CSI: Vegas, now in its third season.
“At Jerry Bruckheimer Tv, we’ve watched Anthony Zuiker develop from a first-time creator with a groundbreaking thought, to the proficient man he’s at present,” Bruckheimer stated. “Anthony is loyal to the individuals round him and is relentless about pushing the bounds on storytelling.”
Zuiker, who has a number of scripted and unscripted TV tasks in improvement, additionally has a take care of Sinclair to develop authentic content material and collection. He serves as government producer on themusical The Hippest Journey, based mostly on the enduring Soul Practice TV collection, and winner of seven BroadwayWorld San Francisco/Bay Space Awards, together with Greatest New Musical or Play. Zuiker can be an investor in Alicia Keys’ new musical, Hell’s Kitchen, coming to Broadway this spring.
Different high TV creators/showrunners on Literate’s roster embrace Fits and Fits: LA creator Aaron Korsh, Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen and The Strolling Useless and The Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon government producer/showrunner Angela Kang.