O.C.'s Brody Bites Into TV Vampires

The O.C. star Adam Brody is going behind the TV camera, teaming with Doug Liman and Dave Bartis' Hypnotic to develop a series about a vampire-hunting Los Angeles cop for NBC, based on Brody's idea, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Brody's as-yet-untitled drama for NBC centers on a rookie cop who joins a special unit of the L.A.P.D. that tracks the vampire population. Separately, Hypnotic has set up the supernatural drama The Gift, from writers Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell, at The WB; it centers on a college freshman who discovers she has special powers.