Vice Studios was chosen Pen15 Co-author Sam Zwiebelman adapted Annika Jade Levy’s debut novel Flat Earth, The Hollywood Reporter I’ve learned. Zvibelman and Levy will co-write, and Zvibelman will direct the pilot.
“Sam was at the top of my wish list. His work is characterized by a sensitive male gaze and an honest curiosity about the inner lives of women,” Levy said in a statement sent to. THR. “There is no one I trust more to translate it Flat Earth To TV.”
Zwiebelman wrote and directed most of the films Pen15 holo rings; Pen15a comedy about middle school students “dealing with the awkwardness of their teenage years”, was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards. Zvibleman has directed entire seasons of the CBC series Neddeaus on Duquesne Island and Take my wife For NBCUniversal.
Flat Earth It is described as “a subtle, satirical portrait of female ambition in New York at a time when attention span is at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high. It follows two desperate young women – best friends Avery and Frances – as they navigate friendship, rivalry, obsession, and survival in a city that always produces young, attractive, gorgeous women with refined taste and then dumps them when they grow too old for the pleated skirt.”
Our entry point is Francis’ experimental documentary, Flat Earthwhich takes the girls on a cross-country road trip, where “Red America and Blue America begin to appear as different brands of the same competing hallucinations,” the description continues. “As Frances rises in the art world, Avery falters financially and emotionally — and a nationwide Adderall shortage isn’t helping. She dates men who hate her, including a liberal law professor twice her age and a reactionary young artist, before eventually taking a job, out of desperation, on a right-wing dating app called Patriarchy and descending into a series of increasingly entrepreneurial relationships.”
It doesn’t help matters when Frances becomes famous and pregnant at the same time, which leads to Avery’s breakup.
Vice Studios has been making headlines recently for its upcoming adaptation of the video game franchise paydayany THR It was exclusively revealed in March. Vice is currently in production on London gangs A feature film will be released soon Bad apples Starring Saoirse Ronan. The studio will expand London gangs franchise in the near future.
Zvibleman is repped by Iconoclast and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
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