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EXCLUSIVE: Unapologetic Projects, nan institution down Sundance victor Dìdi, is ramping up its move into tv pinch a U.S. remake of a celebrated Japanese manga series.
The institution is processing a U.S. bid adjustment of Hotaru’s Way, which was primitively written by Satoru Hiura and has sold complete 5M copies worldwide. It was adapted into a live-action play bid successful Japan arsenic good arsenic characteristic movie Hotaru The Movie: It’s Only A Little Light In My Life, which grossed complete $22M successful Japan.
Hotaru is simply a polished executive adjunct who spends her days successful reddish bottoms and blazers and her nights successful soiled sweats, eating takeout and binging reality TV successful nan flat she sublets from her erstwhile boss, per nan logline. She’s cautiously kept her messy location life abstracted from work, until her leader unexpectedly moves backmost in, forcing her to reevaluate what she really wants from her career, emotion and adulthood.”
It is being written by Angela Nissel, who was a co-exec shaper of Scrubs and exec shaper of Ginny & Georgia, and Sasha Leigh Henry, who wrote connected Workin’ Moms and created Crave drama Bria Mack Gets a Life.
Unapologetic Projects Head of Television Paige Hooper will nutrient pinch Motoko Kimura (Vegas: A Love Story) and Kate Kugler (The Toast).
Hooper said, “We are thrilled to move guardant pinch this caller series. This is conscionable nan first of a fewer projects we person successful advancement arsenic we are building our ain unsocial way towards a semipermanent improvement strategy and approach. We judge we person a beardown pipeline for occurrence and are eager to get caller projects retired for audiences to enjoy.”
