Phil Lord & Chris Miller to Direct The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Producing With Amy Pascal
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller are set to direct the film adaptation of “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.”
Universal Pictures has optioned screen rights to the new book by New York Times bestselling author and journalist Michael Lewis, about the early days of COVID-19 and those U.S. heroes who tried to warn against the dangers of underestimating the deadly seriousness of the killer virus.
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“The Premonition,” which was published last week by W.W. Norton & Co., is a nonfiction story follows three central characters a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who work in the White House as they confront the COVID-19 pandemic and find the response from the United States government is woefully inadequate.
Morning Show Star Billy Crudup to Lead Dramedy Series Hello Tomorrow! at Apple
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The 10-episode, half-hour series is set in a retro-future world and centers around a group of traveling salesmen hawking lunar timeshares. Crudup stars as Jack, a salesman of great talent and ambition, whose unshakeable faith in a brighter tomorrow inspires his coworkers, revitalizes his desperate customers, but threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him.
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The series is written and executive produced by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen. Jonathan Entwistle, known for his work on the BBC/Netflix series “The End of the F ing World” and “I Am Not Okay With This,” is onboard to direct and executive produce. Crudup will executive produce in addition to starring, with Blake Griffin, Ryan Kalil and Noah Weinstein executive producing via Mortal Media. MRC Television will produce.
Hulu Orders Nuyorican Sibling Drama Pilot Olga Dies Dreaming With Xochitl Gonzalez and Alfonso Gómez-Rejón Producing
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April 29, 2021
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Hulu has ordered a one-hour drama pilot titled “Olga Dies Dreaming,” based on the yet-to-be-published novel of the same name. Author Xochitl Gonzalez and Alfonso Gómez-Rejón are attached to executive produce, with Gonzalez writing, and Gómez-Rejón directing. Twentieth Television will produce.
Per the logline, “Olga Dies Dreaming” is the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with their absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City’s elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Hulu Orders Nuyorican Sibling Drama Pilot Olga Dies Dreaming With Xochitl Gonzalez and Alfonso Gómez-Rejón Producing
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April 29, 2021
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Hulu has ordered a one-hour drama pilot titled “Olga Dies Dreaming,” based on the yet-to-be-published novel of the same name. Author Xochitl Gonzalez and Alfonso Gómez-Rejón are attached to executive produce, with Gonzalez writing, and Gómez-Rejón directing. Twentieth Television will produce.
Per the logline, “Olga Dies Dreaming” is the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with their absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City’s elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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