“Suits: L.A.” is headed to… L.A.
The legal drama, led by Stephen Amell, has moved from Vancouver, where it filmed its pilot, to Los Angeles, Stagerunner has learned. The series will be filmed on the Universal Studios Lot in Universal City. The original series, while set in Manhattan filmed all 9 seasons at Cinespace Studios in Toronto.
The NBC spinoff, produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, will follow Amell’s Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York, who now represents “the most powerful clients in Los Angeles” at Black Lane Law, an entertainment and criminal firm.
Per the official logline, “His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.”
The main cast includes Josh McDermitt as Stuart Lane, the powerful and self-absorbed co-founder of the firm; Lex Scott Davis as savvy and strong lawyer Erica Rollins; and Bryan Greenberg as Rick Dodsen, Ted’s protege and Erica’s rival. Additional cast include Rob Nagle and Troy Winbush.
“Suits” creator Aaron Korsh serves as executive producer and wrote the pilot. David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein and Victoria Mahoney are executive producers. Mahoney also directed the pilot.
While “Suits: L.A.” is not a reboot of the USA Network drama, which ran from 2011 to 2019 for nine seasons and had a recent resurgence thanks to Netflix streaming, but instead exists in the same universe and features all new characters.
Variety first reported the news.
