G-Base Productions has acquired the film rights to V.E. Schwab's fantasy novel "A Darker Shade Of Magic" with plans to turn it into a limited series.
The book is set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies:
Grey London - where people think magic is a myth
Red London - where magic thrives
White London - where magic is used only by the rulers
Black London - where magic has corrupted the world beyond repair
Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson will produce with Schwab writing the pilot.
Source: Deadline...
The book is set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies:
Grey London - where people think magic is a myth
Red London - where magic thrives
White London - where magic is used only by the rulers
Black London - where magic has corrupted the world beyond repair
Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson will produce with Schwab writing the pilot.
Source: Deadline...
- 2/3/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel's G-Base productions has acquired rights to V.E. Schwab's fantasy novel A Darker Shade Of Magic for series development. Butler, Siegel and Danielle Robinson will produce with Schwab writing the pilot. The project is being eyed as a limited series. The book is set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies. Grey London, where the people have been told that magic is a myth; Red London…...
- 2/2/2016
- Deadline TV
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Exclusive: Alison Brie and Gretchen Mol have joined Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina on the drama that Voltage is bringing to the Afm.
The Headhunter’s Calling stars Butler as a ruthless recruitment executive poised to take over the company when he is forced to reconsider his priorities after his young son gets sick.
Production began this week and CAA represents Us rights.
Mol plays Butler’s wife and recently wrapped Manchester-By-The-Sea. Brie (pictured), who is in production on the ITV period drama Doctor Thorne for Julian Fellowes and will next star in Warner Bros’ How To Be Single, will play a career rival.
Mark Williams directs from a screenplay by Bill Dubuque. Voltage chief Nicolas Chartier produces with Craig Flores, Butler, Alan Siegel, Williams and Patrick Newall.
Danielle Robinson, Voltage president and COO Jonathan Deckter and Dan Bekerman will serve as executive producers.
The Voltage Pictures sales team led by John Fremes launched the film...
The Headhunter’s Calling stars Butler as a ruthless recruitment executive poised to take over the company when he is forced to reconsider his priorities after his young son gets sick.
Production began this week and CAA represents Us rights.
Mol plays Butler’s wife and recently wrapped Manchester-By-The-Sea. Brie (pictured), who is in production on the ITV period drama Doctor Thorne for Julian Fellowes and will next star in Warner Bros’ How To Be Single, will play a career rival.
Mark Williams directs from a screenplay by Bill Dubuque. Voltage chief Nicolas Chartier produces with Craig Flores, Butler, Alan Siegel, Williams and Patrick Newall.
Danielle Robinson, Voltage president and COO Jonathan Deckter and Dan Bekerman will serve as executive producers.
The Voltage Pictures sales team led by John Fremes launched the film...
- 10/27/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Voltage Pictures and Gerard Butler announced the casting on Mark Williams’ feature directorial debut and Toronto sales title.
Production is scheduled to kick off in Toronto on October 26 on the story of a ruthless headhunter pursuing a lifetime career ambition whose young son is suddenly taken ill.
Bill DuBuque, whose credits include Toronto 2014 opener The Judge, wrote the screenplay to the drama.
Williams, Butler and Alan Siegel are producing The Headhunter’s Calling, with Dubuque and Danielle Robinson on board as executive producers alongside Dan Bekerman of Scythia Films.
Dafoe will play the head of the recruitment company who plans to retire and Molina is cast as a downtrodden engineer who has it in him to rise one last time.
CAA brokered the deal on behalf of Butler, Williams, Dubuque and the production and handles Us rights.
Production is scheduled to kick off in Toronto on October 26 on the story of a ruthless headhunter pursuing a lifetime career ambition whose young son is suddenly taken ill.
Bill DuBuque, whose credits include Toronto 2014 opener The Judge, wrote the screenplay to the drama.
Williams, Butler and Alan Siegel are producing The Headhunter’s Calling, with Dubuque and Danielle Robinson on board as executive producers alongside Dan Bekerman of Scythia Films.
Dafoe will play the head of the recruitment company who plans to retire and Molina is cast as a downtrodden engineer who has it in him to rise one last time.
CAA brokered the deal on behalf of Butler, Williams, Dubuque and the production and handles Us rights.
- 9/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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