EXCLUSIVE: Globo‘s streamer Globoplay has acquired Brazilian authorities to AI-enabled sci-fi bid Space Nation, which nan Brazilian SVOD work will besides co-produce arsenic a Globoplay Original.
Ex Machina Studios is down nan eight-part project, which will besides beryllium co-produced by Utopai Studios. Ex Machina CEO and seasoned shaper Marco Weber (Igby Goes Down) is nan co-creator of Space Nation and will service arsenic executive producer, pinch Martin Weisz besides co-creator and head of each 8 episodes.
The bid is described arsenic “set successful nan adjacent future, wherever humanity’s endurance rests pinch a caller procreation of elite pilots. As Earth confronts an overwhelming alien threat, these young aviators are thrust into relentless combat that tests their loyalty, courage, and religion successful 1 another.” Cast and commencement day has yet to beryllium set.
Space Nation is written by Weisz and Vanessa Coifman, pinch Coifman besides executive producing. As co-producer, Utopai Studios plans to assistance nan accumulation done its upcoming accumulation motor AI system, PAI Pro.
The authorities woody was brokered by Daniel Baur, CEO of K5 International and Weber for Ex Machina Studios. Ex Machina Studios and K5 International are representing worldwide distribution authorities astatine nan Cannes market.
The companies opportunity that main activity is owed to return spot successful LA and that it will beryllium produced “in progressive alignment pinch Hollywood guilds”.
Manuel Belmar, Director of Digital Products astatine Globo, said: “The business pinch Ex Machina Studios for nan accumulation of Space Nation reinforces Globoplay’s strategy of investing successful stories pinch beardown imaginative imaginable and world relevance, ever guided by a observant curation of contented tin of engaging different audiences. International co-productions play an progressively important domiciled successful this approach, expanding our entree to talent, formats, and innovative narratives, while besides strengthening Globoplay’s positioning arsenic a level connected to nan cardinal movements shaping nan world audiovisual industry.”