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EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning shaper Cathy Schulman (The Idea of You, Crash) and her Welle Entertainment banner are teaming pinch Netflix to create a characteristic adjustment of nan bestselling caller The Favorites by Layne Fargo.
Kate Gersten, nan writer of Gia Coppola’s lauded drama The Last Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson, is penning nan script. Schulman is producing for Welle Entertainment, pinch nan company’s Kate Roughan exec producing.
Less than a period aft nan world was mesmerized by Olympic crystal dancing — by real-life mates Madison Chock and Evan Bates, arsenic good arsenic American golden medalist Alysa Liu — The Favorites enters nan aforesaid emotionally charged world of elite fig skating.
Drawing inspiration from Wuthering Heights, nan communicative follows nan emergence and autumn of crystal dancers Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha, chronicling nan pair’s decade-long master and individual history arsenic they navigate nan value of ambition, nan complexity of trauma, and nan good statement betwixt passion and destruction.
Originally published by Random House past January, nan book has sold successful 28 different markets, pinch 27 overseas translations.
A WGA Award nominee, Gersten has besides antecedently written connected bid for illustration Mozart successful nan Jungle, The Good Place, and Schmigadoon!. She is repped by CAA and Gregg Gellman astatine Yorn Levine.
Most precocious producing nan Fox bid Memory of a Killer starring Patrick Dempsey, which premiered successful January, Welle Entertainment’s different credits of precocious see Amazon’s The Idea of You starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, which holds their grounds for nan biggest rom-com debut connected streaming pinch astir 50 cardinal world viewers globally successful its first 2 weeks, arsenic good arsenic Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Golden Globe-nominated movie The Woman King starring Viola Davis.
Author Fargo is repped by CAA and Sharon Pelletier astatine Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.
