Ex-Alias superstar Jennifer Garner has inked a fresh development deal with her old network, sources confirm to me exclusively.
What are the specifics of the pact? And does it involve the words “Alias” and “movie”? Keep reading for all the deets…
ABC declined to comment, but I’m told the deal calls for the four-time Emmy nominee to develop projects via her Vandalia Films production shingle (that’s tradespeak for “office space on studio lot”). There are no plans for Garner to act in any of said projects (apologies for the shameless Alias tease earlier), but as one Alphabet insider says, “If Jennifer wants to make a guest appearance no one is going to stop her.”
The deal — coming three years after Garner ended her five-season run as Sydney Bristow on Alias — marks a big turning point for Garner’s fledgling production company, which so far has dabbled mostly in independent film.
Reaction? Surprised that ABC would make a (likely mega-bucks) deal with Garner that doesn’t include an acting component? Sound off below!
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Meh… I want Alias back for a better finale…
If she’s not acting, she’s directing? Producing? Writing? Does she have experience in any of those?
Seems like alot of money for that talent not to go on camera
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I really miss seeing Jen kick ass on screen we needs her to get another Sydney Bristow kinda role!
Adam, agreed…how much of this deal is linked to hubby’s influence? Does he have any influence? just wondering…
For altogether selfish reasons, if she could guest star in any ABC show, I’d like it to be BROTHERS & SISTERS. And it’d have to be an episode where Tommy is in, for full effect.
Good for her, though, for getting a deal like this. If she wants to produce, terrific! She’s a great actress, but if she can do well in this capacity as well, all the best to her.
Garner hasn’t been successful in a film in years. She’s really, essentially a nobody with no draw. Odd decision.
I really want to see her in another series, maybe a comedy this time? She’s got the chops. Sadly, like SMG before her I think she is a TV star (a mega watt 10,000 volt TV star) trying way too hard to be a film star. Film isn’t better, it just has a bigger budget. And if you produce your own series Ms. Garner, you reap the syndication rewards. Just saying.
Ben Affleck has a lot of influence in Hollywood if she wasn’t married to him this deal would never have happened. Jennifer Garner needs to stop talking the talk about the all the TV and Movie development deals she has and start working on something.
LOVE HER. How about she grabs Lauren Graham, Keri Russell, and Kristen Bell and they do an ensemble dramedy the likes of which the world has never seen before?!
I think she’d make a great guest star on Grey’s. She’d be a good sister for Derek.
Loved her in Alias. She was so hot: http://www.actressscene.com/2009/02/jennifer-garner-in-alias.html
Ben Affleck has a lot of influence and connections in Hollywood this deal would never have happened is she was still married to Scott Foley. I know she’s been making movies since Alias ended but she’s just not a good actress, even in the The Kingdom I felt like I was Sydney Bristow, she’s kind of blah on the big screen no charisma and no range.
Apparently you didn’t see Juno, Maree. Or 13 Going On 30.
Why can’t they make an Alias movie?
Horrible false advertising, EW. Please don’t tell me you’re this desperate to get people to click on your articles.
She’d be a perfect sister for Derek on Grey’s Anatomy – a no-nonsense, kick-a$$ one, at least. The one sister who would know better than to sleep with Mark, ha!
Good for her for the production deal – it will give her great flexibility with the kids and still allow her to use her smarts. Congrats on the deal!
who cares a lot actors have production deals with studios, she’s next Ashton Kutcher producer of crap no one watches or cares about
Garner is terrific and I loved her in “Alias”. To the people who think she hasn’t been in any successful films, what rock have you been living under? Ever heard of “Juno”, “13 Going on 30″, or “Daredevil”? She’s still on magazine covers and is constantly being photographed by the paparazzi, so it’s fair to say that she is still a major draw and this development deal makes perfect sense. In other words, don’t be hating on Sydney Bristow.
I saw Juno, Ellen Page was amazing as the lead in that movie. Jennifer Garner was ok I felt like I was watching sad sydney bristow, but she wasn’t in the movie enough to leave much of an impression.
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Can Michael Vartan come along for the ride? I tried to sit through Hawthorne (no, I will not stylize that title with uppercase), but his face alone couldn’t make up for the awful plot. Someone save him!
She wasn’t the star of Juno, Daredevil widely criticized by critics, fans, and people with senses. Forget the horrible spin-off she was in…Elekra.
She’s hardly a big name anymore, and with her not even being on cam, this isn’t news really.
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Wasn’t some movie meant to be Jennifer Garner’s big movie break out role but she got pregnant and they had to spend the whole movie trying to hide her pregnancy, it was the movie with Kevin Smith it’s so forgettable I can’t remember the name but it bombed big time at the box office and she has never had another lead movie role since. I think she should stick to TV her talent seems more suited to the small screen not the big screen.
Tomika, that was “Catch & Release”, and yes it was bad!
Tomika that movie was 2006 and as you pointed out she did have a child straight after that so probably didn’t want a heavy work load. Plus since then she has been in Juno and was the main love interest in Ghost of Girlfriends Past and if you go to her IMDB page has a ton of projects in production. She doesn’t exactly have a dead career.
I STILL miss ALIAS!
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that picture made me melt a little on the inside. please come back to tv, jennifer!
Oh Jennifer Garner, how your pregnancy ultimately killed Alias.
I kid the goddess! I kid!
I’m stunned. How can this be a good deal for ABC. Sounds like idiots throwing away money to me. She was great in Alias. I loved her and the show, but all of her theatrical movies have been huge stinkers. Elecktra was so bad, it was laughable. The only way she’ll produce a hit anything for them is if she accidentally backs into it. But hey good deal for her. Hopefully, she’ll produce dramas but pitch them to ABC as comedies. lol
I swore that I would never watch another ABC show after the shoddy treatment ALIAS recieved in its numerous night changes all for the likes of crap shows like “LOST”,”Desperate Whores” and “Greys Anatomy”! ABC screwed ALIAS over.Jennifers pregnancy had nothing to do with it,it was all ABC and J.J. Abrams!
So I would be all forgiving to J.J.Abrams if he could write and direct an ALIAS movie with the entire cast including my beloved Spydaddy,a.k.a Victor Garber!