IN PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
NAUTILUS
Coming to Disney+, based on Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Nautilus is an epic action-adventure series tracing the origin story of Verne’s most iconic character, Captain Nemo, and his famous submarine, The Nautilus.
Nemo is an Indian Prince robbed of his birth right and family, a prisoner of the East India Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces which have taken everything from him. But once he sets sail with his ragtag crew on board the awe-inspiring Nautilus, he not only battles with his enemy, he also discovers a magical underwater world. The 10-part epic is set to arrive Fall 2023. Click here to read more:
Created by James Dormer.
THE CRITIC
Ian McKellen (The Good Liar), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) will lead the cast of The Critic, a period thriller based on Anthony Quinn’s classic novel Curtain Call. In the film set in 1934 London, McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, the most feared drama critic in town—with Arterton as Nina Land, the actress determined to win his favor. When Jimmy finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper’s new owner, David Brooke (Strong), Nina becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.
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AN EXCELLENT CHOICE
“Think Fleabag meets Helen Fielding. Will someone please make a TV show about these women.” - New York Times
Currently being adapted and to be directed by Sharon Maguire, this is Guardian journalist and New York transplant, Emma Brockes’ memoir about her complicated and often hilarious journey to single motherhood.
EUROPA
Winner of the 2017 British Science Fiction Award
Genre-bending science fiction epic adapted by Peter Straughan (Wolf Hall, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) from the prize-winning novels by Dave Hutchinson.
“With Europe at Dawn, Dave Hutchinson brings his magnificent “fractured Europe” series to an end and cements his position as one of the UK’s foremost writers. Hutchinson’s Europe, splintered into a thousand bickering new states, is strangely haunted by an alternative reality ruled by a stiflingly small-c conservative “Community”. I consider this series the best fictional response to Brexit yet published, and Europe at Dawn is a superbly judged conclusion.”
— The Guardian
Director: Tomas Alfredson
NUMB
NUMB is a modern crime thriller full of dark twists and genre kicks, created by the team behind the Amazon hit THE DEVIL’S HOUR, Tom Moran and Johnny Allan (THE DEVIL’S HOUR). How far would you go to find a cure for pain?
“We can ignore even pleasure.
But pain insists upon being tended to.
God whispers to us in our pleasures,
Speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains;
It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
C.S.Lewis - The Problem of Pain
POPE JOAN
For a thousand years her existence has been denied. Pope Joan - the 9th C woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St Peter. Erased from all history, derided as a malicious rumour, a story invented to shame the Catholic church…But the legend will not die. And where there’s smoke…
Frank, provocative and unashamedly entertaining, POPE JOAN is THE HANDMAID’S TALE meets THE GREAT. The ultimate tale of a woman in a man’s world.
Based on the bestselling novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross.
Writer - Liz Lake
WHITE RABBIT, RED WOLF
Based on Tom Pollock’s much-lauded teen thriller, an adrenaline-fuelled, young adult series about murder, maths and the mind.
'A gripping and gloriously treacherous thriller without guide ropes or safety nets. Leave all certainties by the door.' - Frances Hardinge
Shortlisted for the YA BOOK PRIZE 2019
Writer - Tom Moran
Available to stream
SELECTION DAY
Produced in India for Netflix, Selection Day is a compelling story of cricket and corruption, based on Booker Prize winning author Aravind Adiga's novel of the same name.
Adapted for the screen by Marston Bloom.
Directors:
Udayan Prasad
Karan Boolani