Gerard Brown, Screenwriter "Juice (1992)" joining Trial 2020. Chandler AZ Reality Show Coming Fall

CHANDLER, Ariz. - June 14, 2015 - PRLog -- Thousand Ton Productions, which has produced the television show "Trial 2020," has closed a multi-party deal this weekend to begin producing the Pilot for what should be "...a very entertaining food reality show centered around Creole Cajun Bistro," said CEO Abraham Doe.

Creole Cajun Bistro located at 5070 S Gilbert Rd #400, Chandler, AZ is owned and operated by husband and wife team, Executive Chef, Eric Rachal Sr. and Jodie Haynes. Since opening, the restaurant has enjoyed steadily growing popularity "...firstly, mainly due to the tastiness of the food," said Doe.

Angie Morrissey of Thousand Ton shared, "Rachal Sr. is incredibly talented and versatile in the kitchen. The food he prepares is enjoyed by many. As "EMoneyBlue," on YouTube, the team enjoys a viewership of close to 1.5 million worldwide for his recipes. We bet that number will be increasing in the coming months."

Global Phenomz Group of Phoenix will handle production of the pilot. Four to Seven shoot days are planned for July. M&M Productions operated by Michael Esters Pruitt and Melissa Ornelas is pushing the project.

"Pre-production has begun. The opening day story is one of the most hilarious stories I have ever heard. Yet it truly happened to Eric and Jodie. We are going to do our best to recreate it so 2 million people can see what a great set of people these are, and also, why they should visit this restaurant if they are ever in Chandler Arizona," shared Doe. The pilot is planned to be aired on a Phoenix television station this fall.

In other news, Thousand Ton Productions proudly announces the promotion of Angie Morrissey to Sr. Marketing and Communications Consultant.

Further, the company is finalizing contract details with Gerard Brown of New York City to join the Trial 2020 screenwriting team. "We are excited with the prospects for the show gaining the interest of someone so accomplished and respected in the business. He will anchor the writing team of Abraham Doe, Mark DeBoer and possibly one more writer. The first goal is completion of the New Pilot we look to produce and air this fall (2015)," shared Morrissey.

GERARD BROWN is a native of Asbury Park, New Jersey and a graduate of Howard University in Washington DC where he studied television, film and journalism. His feature film, television and theater credits include award winning projects including JUICE which was produced by Island-World Pictures. Paramount Pictures distributed the film domestically, releasing it over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend in January 1992 in 1,100 theaters and backed by more than $10 million in prints and advertising. It earned $8 million in its first weekend and has since gone on to be considered by many as a cult classic. The film was the directorial debut of Spike Lee cinematographer, and current AMC producer/director Ernest Dickerson. Mr. Brown also scripted Monster: The Life of an L.A. Gang Member for Oliver Stone’s Propaganda Films and won first place in the screen writing competition for the New Federal Theater in New York City for his screenplay High Caliber.

For television, Gerard wrote for three seasons for the HBO animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child which began airing in March 1995 and continues today on the HBO Family Channel. The episodes he wrote featured the voices of Denzel Washington, Whoopie Goldberg, Will Ferrell, Bruno Kirby, Tisha Campbell, Lou Rawls, Ben Vereen, and Robert Townsend among others. HBO selected one of the episodes Mr. Brown wrote – a Caribbean adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin – as its entry in “The Cartoons by The Bay International Animation Competition” held in Italy in April 1996.  HBO submitted another episode Mr. Brown wrote for a Cable Ace Award. Gerard also wrote three episodes for Todd MacFarlene’s Emmy Award winning HBO adult animated series SPAWN.

Gerard also conceived wrote and co-produced Spike & Co.: Do It A Cappella starring Spike Lee and Debbie Allen and also directed by Ernest Dickerson. This production gained the season premier spot for PBS’s “Great Performances” series and was also aired on the BBC in the UK and many other markets in Europe and Asia.

Gerard is also a former Writer-in-Residence with the prestigious New York Shakespeare Festival (Public Theater) after his first full length play (JONIN’) was produced there by the legendary theater producer Joseph Papp.

He wrote the pilot for and is currently in further development with an inner city children’s animated/educational series titled THE ADVENTURES OF TEDDY P. BRAINS with Philadelphia based Fourth and One Productions. The film had its debut screening at the Harlem International Film Festival in New York City in October 2006 and went on to win first place at the International Black Harvest Film and Video Festival in Chicago in August 2007 as well as winning a special award from the Museum of Science & Industry. It was an award nominee for the “Kids First Film Festival” in Los Angeles on October 4, 2008, sponsored by the Coalition for Children’s Media.

Gerard completed the pilot for the series The Whiskey for Fulton Street Films who screened the trailer at The Sundance Film Festival. The script was finalist in the Black Women’s Entertainment Web competition in 2011. He has also written scripts from Goin’ Out Productionsand HBO producer Brent Owens, entitled The Goat, and Trio to Rio. He recently adapted a feature script from the novel ‘The Marimba Trade”, and is currently writing/developing the pilot for another children’s series for Japanese television entitled CAPTAIN CHIBI CHAN, and an animated feature film entitled  JUNIOR, both also for New York based Going Out Productions.  He has also recently completed the script To Be Heard, a short to be produced in Michigan for DMD Films and Duke University, and a feature entitled Neighborhood for State & Rush Films in Chicago which is currently in pre-production.

Most recently, Gerard finished the feature LUCIANA, for Diggin 4 Brown Productions in NYC, and has begun work on a feature for Vanguard Films on the life of the late African American billiards sensation Cicero Murphy.

He is an adjunct professor at Long Island University (Brooklyn campus), and at SUNY Orange. He has also been a guest lecturer at New York University, Duke University, Rutgers University, Howard University, Morgan State University, North Carolina State University, and Saint Augustine’s University.