Based on the action film starring Saoirse Ronan and directed by Darkest Hour‘s Joe Wright, the straight-to-series drama will start filming in March.
David Farr
The 2011 film Hanna is making a comeback — but this time for the small screen. Amazon Studios has given an adaptation of the film a series order and original co-writer David Farr will pen the script.
An update of John le Carré’s drama, The Night Manager follows a former British soldier recruited to infiltrate the inner circle of an international businessman and neutralize his alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. The mini-series premieres April 19 on AMC.
Jimenez is fresh off his TIFF hit “The Connection.”
Logline: Tells the true story of the assassination of Hitler’s cabinet member Reinhard Heydrich.
The selections of the 2014 Brit List
Logline: The story follows upstairs couple Kate and Justin, who are expecting their first baby, and Jon and Teresa who move in downstairs and are also expecting a child. In contrast to Kate, Teresa is full of joy at the prospect of imminent motherhood. Pregnancy brings the women together in shared confidence, until one night a joint dinner begins to reveal all is not as it seems with the ones below.
New writers tackle an old project.
Logline: When an MI-6 agent discovers that he is terminally ill, he decides to cram a lifetime of living into his remaining time and decides to right the wrongs he has committed.
Logline: Remake will modernize the story to be more in lines with an eleven year old American boy who believes he’s discovered that his idolized friend, his family butler, has murdered his wife.
Logline: Pitched as a love story set in a mega city in a future where precious H2O has all but run out and corporations go to war over its control. The city is divided into two conflicting halves, in which the upper city hoards all the water and drip feeds the slums of the lower city. A girl from the upper tier meets a water rat boy and falls in love against this backdrop.
Logline: A 14-year-old raised by her father to be a cold-hearted killing machine must learn how to be a girl.
Logline: Pitched in the vein of “Game of Thrones,” an origin story about the wizard Merlin.
