David Crow Feb 18, 2020
Taika Waititi will direct and co-write a new Showtime horror-comedy series that stars Jude Law. It also has a killer premise...
It’s fair to say that Taika Waititi’s Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay is not slowing him down. Quite the opposite, in fact. For we learned Tuesdsay that Waititi is developing a new half-hour comedy series over at Showtime and it already has Jude Law attached to star. Truly the work of The Auteur, indeed.
While Showtime stopped short of ordering Waititi’s The Auteur to series, they have commissioned several episodes worth of scripts, indicating a series pickup is likely. It probably helps it has the added star wattage of Jude Law also attached. The series is set to be co-written between Waititi and Peter Warren (2016’s Ghost Team), with Waititi also directing at least the first episode of the show. The setup...
Taika Waititi will direct and co-write a new Showtime horror-comedy series that stars Jude Law. It also has a killer premise...
It’s fair to say that Taika Waititi’s Oscar win for Best Original Screenplay is not slowing him down. Quite the opposite, in fact. For we learned Tuesdsay that Waititi is developing a new half-hour comedy series over at Showtime and it already has Jude Law attached to star. Truly the work of The Auteur, indeed.
While Showtime stopped short of ordering Waititi’s The Auteur to series, they have commissioned several episodes worth of scripts, indicating a series pickup is likely. It probably helps it has the added star wattage of Jude Law also attached. The series is set to be co-written between Waititi and Peter Warren (2016’s Ghost Team), with Waititi also directing at least the first episode of the show. The setup...
- 2/18/2020
- Den of Geek
Showtime has confirmed development of half-hour series The Auteur, starring Jude Law (The Young Pope) and directed by newly minted Oscar winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), who will also write with Peter Warren (Ghost Team). Signaling its intention to pick up the project to series, the network has ordered multiple scripts of The Auteur, produced by Showtime and Legendary with Endeavor Content serving as studio.
Based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson, The Auteur is described as a gonzo horror-comedy, a twisted romance and a glamorous, high wire act of biting satire. In it, desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer.
“The Auteur unites the wildly imaginative filmmaker Taika Waititi and the barbed wit of Peter Warren with the undeniable Jude Law in a bloody love...
Based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson, The Auteur is described as a gonzo horror-comedy, a twisted romance and a glamorous, high wire act of biting satire. In it, desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer.
“The Auteur unites the wildly imaginative filmmaker Taika Waititi and the barbed wit of Peter Warren with the undeniable Jude Law in a bloody love...
- 2/18/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Jude Law is set to star in “The Auteur,” a horror-comedy in development at Showtime, that will be executive produced and co-written by Taika Waititi.
Desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer. “The Auteur” is a gonzo horror-comedy, a twisted romance and a glamorous, high wire act of biting satire. Waititi, who is coming off an Oscar win for “Jojo Rabbit” and is set to direct the next “Thor” film, would co-write the series with Peter Warren as well as direct some of the episodes. Law is also an executive producer on the project.
Showtime has ordered multiple scripts for the half-hour series.
Also Read: 'The Nest': Jude Law on Telling a Tale of a Family Torn Apart by Greed (Video)
“The Auteur” will be Law’s next TV project...
Desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer. “The Auteur” is a gonzo horror-comedy, a twisted romance and a glamorous, high wire act of biting satire. Waititi, who is coming off an Oscar win for “Jojo Rabbit” and is set to direct the next “Thor” film, would co-write the series with Peter Warren as well as direct some of the episodes. Law is also an executive producer on the project.
Showtime has ordered multiple scripts for the half-hour series.
Also Read: 'The Nest': Jude Law on Telling a Tale of a Family Torn Apart by Greed (Video)
“The Auteur” will be Law’s next TV project...
- 2/18/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
After winning the Oscar for Best Adapted screenplay for his Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi has reportedly signed on to co-write, executive produce, and direct some episodes of a limited series from Showtime, “The Auteur.”
The series, which is still in development, would see Waititi adapting the psychedelic graphic novel of the same name by James Callahan and Rick Spears about a filmmaker who enters a downward spiral after making one of Hollywood’s biggest-ever bombs; Jude Law is in talks to star as the main character. (Via Variety.)
Peter Warren (“Ghost Team”) will co-write the show with Waititi. Law and Eric Gitter of Closed on Mondays (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) are also executive producing.
The graphic novel was published in 2014 by Oni Press, publisher of “Scott Pilgrim,” and adaptations of “Clerks,” “Invader Zim,” and “Rick and Morty.” Here’s how Oni describes the first volume of the...
The series, which is still in development, would see Waititi adapting the psychedelic graphic novel of the same name by James Callahan and Rick Spears about a filmmaker who enters a downward spiral after making one of Hollywood’s biggest-ever bombs; Jude Law is in talks to star as the main character. (Via Variety.)
Peter Warren (“Ghost Team”) will co-write the show with Waititi. Law and Eric Gitter of Closed on Mondays (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) are also executive producing.
The graphic novel was published in 2014 by Oni Press, publisher of “Scott Pilgrim,” and adaptations of “Clerks,” “Invader Zim,” and “Rick and Morty.” Here’s how Oni describes the first volume of the...
- 2/15/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Showtime is in negotiations for The Auteur, a limited series from Jojo Rabbit writer-director Taika Waititi, Peter Warren and Jude Law, who is set to star, sources close to the project tell Deadline. We hear the project hails from Endeavor Content and Legendary Television.
Written by Waititi, the series is believed to be a Hollywood satire, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Rick Spears, with Law playing the title character. Waititi is expected to direct. Eric Gitter of Closed on Mondays and Dan Halsted executive produce.
Reps for Showtime declined comment.
Law can currently be seen in the second season of HBO series The New Pope. On the film side, he was recently seen opposite Blake Lively in Paramount’s The Rhythm Section, and he also starred in The Nest, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. He is next set to begin shooting...
Written by Waititi, the series is believed to be a Hollywood satire, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Rick Spears, with Law playing the title character. Waititi is expected to direct. Eric Gitter of Closed on Mondays and Dan Halsted executive produce.
Reps for Showtime declined comment.
Law can currently be seen in the second season of HBO series The New Pope. On the film side, he was recently seen opposite Blake Lively in Paramount’s The Rhythm Section, and he also starred in The Nest, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. He is next set to begin shooting...
- 2/15/2020
- by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Coming off an Oscar win for best adapted screenplay, Jojo Rabbit writer-director Taika Waititi is headed to Showtime for his next project.
Waititi and Jude Law are attached to a series called The Auteur that's in the works at the premium cable outlet, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is a Hollywood satire that would have Law playing the eccentric title character.
Showtime made an official announcement on Feb. 18, saying it's ordered multiple scripts for the project, which is based on an Oni Press graphic novel of the same name by Rick Spears, James Callahan and ...
Waititi and Jude Law are attached to a series called The Auteur that's in the works at the premium cable outlet, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is a Hollywood satire that would have Law playing the eccentric title character.
Showtime made an official announcement on Feb. 18, saying it's ordered multiple scripts for the project, which is based on an Oni Press graphic novel of the same name by Rick Spears, James Callahan and ...
- 2/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The prizes were handed out during the Frontières Networking Lunch on May 18.
Rick Spears’ Black Bats and Lindsay MacKay’s Mersea picked up the post-production prizes at the genre-focused Frontières Platform in the Marché in Cannes on Saturday (May 18).
Us horror romance Black Bats picked up the inaugural Warner Music Supervision award. Directed by Rick Spears and produced by Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath of Divide/Conquer and Blumhouse Productions, it follows two teens who begin a relationship under the belief that they’re transforming into monsters.
The award will see Warner Music Supervision provide services and an original...
Rick Spears’ Black Bats and Lindsay MacKay’s Mersea picked up the post-production prizes at the genre-focused Frontières Platform in the Marché in Cannes on Saturday (May 18).
Us horror romance Black Bats picked up the inaugural Warner Music Supervision award. Directed by Rick Spears and produced by Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath of Divide/Conquer and Blumhouse Productions, it follows two teens who begin a relationship under the belief that they’re transforming into monsters.
The award will see Warner Music Supervision provide services and an original...
- 5/18/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
For the past six years, genre moviemakers and moneymen have congregated for long weekends at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, taking part in the Frontières Co-Production Marketplace. Founded in 2012, the market was conceived as a place for horror/fantasy/action auteurs — both established names and newcomers — to pitch projects to potential backers and take part in various networking events.
A highlight of the Market is the opening-day pitch session, in which selected directors, writers, and producers offer multimedia presentations of their nascent features. At the very first Frontières, this event spawned Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s exuberant futuristic actioner “Turbo Kid”; subsequent movies that took their first steps to fruition there include Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie’s cult/monster horror film “The Void”; Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard’s science-fiction thriller “Radius,” which premiered at this year’s Fantasia; and Jenn Wexler’s upcoming punk-slasher opus “The Ranger.
A highlight of the Market is the opening-day pitch session, in which selected directors, writers, and producers offer multimedia presentations of their nascent features. At the very first Frontières, this event spawned Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s exuberant futuristic actioner “Turbo Kid”; subsequent movies that took their first steps to fruition there include Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie’s cult/monster horror film “The Void”; Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard’s science-fiction thriller “Radius,” which premiered at this year’s Fantasia; and Jenn Wexler’s upcoming punk-slasher opus “The Ranger.
- 7/27/2017
- by Michael Gingold
- Indiewire
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