WICHITA — “True Blood” creator Alan Ball has a new project in the works called “Wichita.”
That, of course, had been what the Tom Cruise flick “Knight and Day” had once been tentatively titled.
This “Wichita” is a far different drama.
The Hollywood Reporter says Ball will executive produce the HBO show that’s based on the life of abortion provider George Tiller.
Tiller, who was one of the few physicians nationally who would provide late-term abortions, was murdered by an abortion opponent at his Wichita church in 2009.
The Reporter describes “Wichita” as “an hourlong drama about a Kansas surgeon who inadvertently becomes the focal point of a contemporary political, cultural and ethical war.”
Ball is developing the show with Devin Friedman, who wrote a 2010 GQ story about Tiller titled “Savior vs. Savior.”