Antoine Fuqua has teamed up with Showtime for a dark medical drama titled “The City,” based on an idea that originated with Fuqua, who will executive produced along with writer-producer-director Amy Holden Jones (“The Black Box” and much more).

Jones, Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi are co-writing the script for a potential series that centers on an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day of residency under the supervision of a senior resident who appears tough and brilliant, but turns out to be a cunning and deadly psychopath.




So, essentially, it’s almost like “Training Day” set in a hospital.

David Boorstein, President of TV at Antoine Fuqua’s Fuqua Films production company, will oversee the project for the company. Fuqua and Jones will executive produce with 3 Arts’ Oly Obst. Schore and Sethi will co-executive produce.

This is the third TV project Fuqua has sold this year; the other 2 are CBS’ “Training Day” series, and AT&T’S Audience network drama series “Ice.”

Up next for Fuqua is “The Magnificent Seven,” which will be out this fall.