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EXCLUSIVE: The latest bid from Amplify Pictures is ‘Anglers‘, an unscripted bid from indie filmmakers and wildlife photographers Owen and Quentin Reiser.
Danny McBride’s Rough House Pictures is serving arsenic an executive shaper connected nan show, which Amplify has greenlit arsenic portion of its strategy to independently-finance TV shows. As such, L.A.-based Amplify will finance nan eight-part, half-hour series.
The Reiser brothers, whose YouTube birdwatching bid Listers first made their name, are nan creators, directors, executive producers and stars of Anglers. Per nan synopsis, it “tells the communicative of 2 eager brothers who deed nan roadworthy pinch a Craigslist vessel and much assurance than skill, stumbling done America’s galore sportfishing subcultures arsenic they effort to go existent anglers earlier entering a bass sportfishing tournament.”
The Reiser Brothers said: “We’re making a gonzo roadworthy travel doc portion connected what it intends to beryllium an angler successful America.”
Production will statesman this summertime successful nan Pacific Northwest, pinch nan Reisers, Amplify’s Joe Lewis, Luke Esselen, Rachel Eggebeen and Colin Miller and Rough House’s Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Brandon James serving arsenic executive producers.
“Anglers is proof that TV tin still beryllium authentic, surprising and wonderful,” said Lewis, Amplify’s CEO. “It’s the communicative of 2 brothers chasing sportfishing glory, told pinch emotion, absurdity, incredible filmmaking and a sound that could only travel from Owen and Quentin.
“This is nan benignant of communicative and independent bid we built Amplify Pics to support – bold, individual and profoundly funny pinch nan powerfulness to astonishment and return you into a world you’ve ne'er seen before.”
The bid marks 100 Foot Wave shaper Amplify’s latest independently-made series, coming aft nan likes of mockumentary bid Mt. Mystic from Jeremiah Dunlap and Cory Quintard and comedic crime-thriller Sleep King from nan Duplass brothers.
Rough House’s James said: “Owen and Quentin person a filmmaking sound that feels wholly their own. They’re wildly funny, profoundly committed and genuinely unpredictable. We were blown distant by what they accomplished with Listers, and this bid only expands connected that originality and ambition.
“Their pursuit of sportfishing glory is hilarious connected its face, but it besides promises to go a amazingly cinematic, profoundly American and wholly surreal escapade that’s unexpectedly moving. We’re thrilled to beryllium successful nan vessel pinch them and Amplify on this one.”
The Reiser Brothers are represented by Anonymous Content and Vainshtein Law. Rough House is repped by UTA.
