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NBC Universal announced today that their forthcoming comedy series Young Rock officially began filming today. The cast had traveled to Australia last month in advance of filming. Production officially began in late October.
NBC ordered the series this past January for an 11 episode first season with Johnson appearing on all episodes. It is slated to debut mid-season.
The show is filming at Screen Queensland Studios as well as additional locations in and around Brisbane and South East Queensland, Australia.
"We’re going to find young Rock wreaking havoc in the streets of Hawaii, when I was a teenager, getting arrested seemingly every single week, doing things I shouldn’t have been doing, but still a good kid. Then we got evicted off the island, and moved to, of all places Nashville, Tennessee, where I continued to get in trouble,” Johnson told Deadline.com when the series was picked up in January.
“Just imagine me at 15 in downtown Nashville, listening to honky tonk, buying my first car from a crackhead for $70 – I did talk him down so I was a pretty good negotiator. Then we go into high school years and then I became University of Miami football star, if you will, until I got beat out of my position by a guy by the name of Warren Sapp, who went on to become one of the greatest defensive tackles of all time."
The series will be written by Fresh Off the Boat Creator Nahnatchka Khan and Jeff Chaing, who wrote the pilot script utilized by Khan and Johnson in their pitch to NBC. NBC immediately ordered the concept straight to series.
Executive producers on the series include Khan, Johnson, Chiang, Dany Garcia of Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions, Hiram Garcia, Brian Gewirtz and Jennifer Carreras. The show is being produced by Universal Television, Seven Bucks and Khan’s Fierce Baby Productions.
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