Chicago Fire might not be the only blaze on NBC‘s primetime lineup.
The network is developing a drama series based on Candice Fox’s 2023 novel Fire With Fire, which would star This Is Us alum Jon Huertas. According to our sister site Deadline, which first reported the project, Huertas will also executive-produce alongside The Rookie creator Alexi Hawley, while onetime Arrow co-showrunner Wendy Mericle will write the script.
The as-yet-untitled potential series follows Huertas’ Enrique Arroyo, a grizzled undercover cop who forms an unlikely partnership with rookie flame-out Lynette Lamb after two grieving parents hijack an LAPD forensics lab and threaten to destroy evidence until the police find their missing daughter.
The Fire With Fire adaptation would mark a return to NBC for Huertas, who last appeared on the network as Miguel Rivas in all six seasons of family drama This Is Us. Other TV work includes Castle, Generation Kill and Elementary.
Hawley, meanwhile, still shepherds ABC’s cop procedural The Rookie — currently airing its seventh season Tuesdays at 9/8c — and is attached to write and exec-produce a possible second Rookie spinoff in the works at the Alphabet Net. Earlier this month, Hawley’s spy drama The Recruit was cancelled at Netflix after two seasons; in a social media “love letter” to the axed series, Hawley wrote, “Is two seasons and a movie a thing? Cause we’d all be there in a heartbeat. If not, man, we left it all on the field. For those who haven’t yet watched, dive in. I swear to God you’ll enjoy the ride.”
