2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitory business involving 11 bidders, Netflix has landed The Decorator, a play bid based connected a short communicative by Cody Behan (Tyrant). Behan is penning nan adaptation, now successful development, which he executive produces pinch Stacey Sher (Django Unchained).
The crippled specifications are being kept nether wraps but nan bid is simply a psychosexual play group successful nan cutthroat world of luxury interior creation successful Los Angeles.
Behan’s short communicative was among a mates of buzzy packages/specs to deed nan TV marketplace successful January. It received a batch of liking and, aft a lengthy process, closed a woody astatine Netflix which has committed to a 20-week writers room, sources said.
It is nan latest competitory TV task to spell to Netflix complete nan past respective months, pursuing Next Door, starring Tessa Thompson, arsenic good arsenic a fewer that received straight-to-series orders: So Far Gone, from writer Mark Bomback; Joshua Zetumer’s spec Pagans; Black Hole, based connected Charles Burns’ schematic novels, Rabbit, Rabbit, starring Adam Driver; and Trigger Point, starring Joel Edgerton.
Behan’s characteristic script The Diamond As Big As The Ritz, based connected F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, landed connected nan 2019 Black List. It is now successful improvement arsenic a bid for WBTV pinch David E. Kelley producing. He co-wrote pinch David Weil nan communicative for Weil’s upcoming Amazon MGM Studios thriller movie Tyrant, starring Julia Garner and Charlize Theron, and antecedently wrote connected Weil’s Prime Video bid Solos. Behan, who besides adapted his short communicative Saltwater Cowboys into a characteristic for Amazon Studios, pinch Gore Verbinski producing and Miles Teller attached to star, and is processing a TV show pinch Protozoa (Darren Aronofsky) and Putnam Pictures (Keri Putnam) producing, is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Sher has a first-look TV woody astatine FX Prods./20th Television. She executive produced nan 2020 FX constricted tv series, Mrs. America, which earned 10 Emmy nominations. Most recently, Sher produced Chris Pine’s directorial debut, Poolman, starring Pine, Danny DeVito, and Annette Bening, arsenic good arsenic nan A24 thriller, Heretic, starring Hugh Grant. Currently, she is producing nan Amazon MGM Studios’ seductive thriller Verity, directed by Michael Showalter and starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett. Sher is repped by CAA and Gang Tyre, Ramer.
