Summary:
Recent The Shield collaborators David Mamet and Shawn Ryan have been given a green light to produce the drama pilot, which now is running under the title The Unit. The project, which previously had a put pilot commitment, chronicles the lives of the members of a special forces unit and their families. Mamet will write the pilot script and executive produce the 20th Century Fox Television-based project along with Ryan. rom Executive Producers David Mamet and Shawn Ryan, THE UNIT is an action drama that follows a covert team of Special Forces operatives as they risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their families maintain the home front, protecting their husbands... The Unit is based at a fictional army post, Fort Griffith. The location of Fort Griffith is never explicitly stated, but in Episode 303 Always Kiss Them Goodbye, the storyline suggests that it is northwest of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and west/southwest of St. Louis, Missouri, which would place it in the vicinity of the real-life Fort Leonard Wood.