“FIRST, DO NO HARM.”
First Published on Deadline.com
JAMIE DORNAN, ALEC BALDWIN & CHRISTIAN SLATER TO STAR IN ‘DR. DEATH’, UCP LIMITED SERIES BASED ON PODCAST.
A limited drama series from UCP based on the Wondery podcast about a sinister doctor who treats his Hippocratic Oath about the same way he treats his patients. With the high-caliber talent on board, UCP is shopping the project to networks and streaming platforms.
The studio took the same approach with two other series based on podcasts, Homecoming, which was sold to Amazon with Julia Roberts attached, and Dirty John, which landed at Bravo with Connie Britton in negotiations to star. Both those projects scored two-season pickups.
Wondery’s Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the gross negligence of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us. It tells the disturbing true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Dornan), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, he was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow surgeons (Baldwin and Slater) and a young assistant district attorney set out to stop him.