“Under the Skin” is taking one giant leap closer to becoming a television series as financing and production company Silver Reel has won the rights to create a show based on Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed 2014 drama. Silver Reel financed Glazer’s “Under the Skin” and beat out the film’s distributor A24 in a heated bidding war for TV rights to the project. Deadline reports Silver Reel “bid $906,000 in cash and credit for the film collateral and reserved rights, which includes spin-offs of the ‘Under The Skin’ brand. A24 offered $175,000 in cash for the film rights and a first option on the TV rights.”
Glazer wrote “Under the Skin” with Walter Campbell and adapted the project from Michael Farber’s 2000 novel of the same name. The film stars Scarlett Johansson as an alien who roams around Glasgow seducing men and harvesting their bodies for her home planet. The alien’s...
Glazer wrote “Under the Skin” with Walter Campbell and adapted the project from Michael Farber’s 2000 novel of the same name. The film stars Scarlett Johansson as an alien who roams around Glasgow seducing men and harvesting their bodies for her home planet. The alien’s...
- 5/4/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" had its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Saturday and rave reviews establish last year's Best Actor champ Eddie Redmayne as a strong contender to become the sixth performer to win back-to-back Oscars. He plays artist Einar Wegener, one of the world’s first sex-change patients, who became Lili Elbe in the 1920s. Among the rest of the cast, Alicia Vikander is a stand-out as Wegener's wife Gerda as is Ben Whishaw as a would-be suitor to Lili. -Break- British playwright Lucinda Coxon ("Happy Now?") adapted David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel of the same name. For her work bringing Michael Farber's sweeping period novel "The Crimson Petal and the White" to television, she earned both BAFTA and Royal Television Society nominations. The lavish production design of "The Danish Girl" is by Eve St...
- 9/5/2015
- Gold Derby
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