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To All the Boys Author Jenny Han Sets The Summer I Turned Pretty Series at Amazon
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Amazon has given the show an eight-episode order. Han wrote the pilot for the series and will also serve as executive producer and co-showrunner. Gabrielle Stanton will also executive produce and co-showrun. Karen Rosenfelt will also serve as executive producer along with Paul Lee, Nne Ebong, and Hope Hartman for wiip. The series is a co-production between Amazon Studios and wiip.
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“The Summer I Turned Pretty is many years in the making, and I’m so excited to tell Belly’s story in 2021,” said Han. “For the longtime book fans, I think it will have been worth the wait. For those newly discovering the Summer series, I hope you fall in love with these characters and this place that is so dear to my heart.”
Danny Boyle got his chance to explore the mod rock icons the Beatles with
Yesterday, and now he’s shooting straight for ’70s punk rock with
Pistol, an FX limited series that follows the life of Sex Pistols guitarist
Steve Jones.
FX announced that it has ordered Boyle’s
Pistol, a six-episode limited series about the Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones based on Jones’ 2018 memoir
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. Boyle will direct and executive produce the series, which was created by Craig Pearce and written by Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Here is the synopsis for
Pistol, per the press release:
Sex Pistols Biopic Goes into Production
FX has ordered Pistol, a six-episode limited series about the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, it was announced today by Nick Grad, President, Original Programming, FX Entertainment.
Based on Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, the series from Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle, who will also serve as Executive Producer and director, was created by Craig Pearce and written by Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Jones, Boyle and Pearce serve as Executive Producers alongside Gail Lyon, Anita Camarata, Tracey Seaward, Paul Lee, Hope Hartman and wiip. The series is produced by FX Productions and is set to begin production on March 7.
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