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EXCLUSIVE: Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen is bringing immoderate forbidden romance to Calabasas. Netflix has greenlighted Calabasas, a YA play bid from executive producer/showrunner Van Dusen and executive producers Kim Kardashian, Alexandra Milchan and Emma Roberts.
The bid falls nether an wide woody Van Dusen signed pinch Netflix astatine nan extremity of past year, soon aft he joined Calabasas — past successful improvement — arsenic caller showrunner.
The project, inspired by nan book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now by Via Bleidner, has undergone complete translator pinch Van Dusen astatine nan helm, adopting a sweeping, high-stakes YA emotion communicative Bridgerton fans would o.k. of.
In Calabasas, astatine an elite backstage schoolhouse successful nan country’s astir exclusive town, nan headmaster’s eager girl is destined to person it each – until she’s swept into a forbidden romance pinch nan 1 boy wished to pain down her sparkling world alternatively of play by its rules. In Calabasas, wherever desires are ne'er arsenic cleanable arsenic appearances suggest, falling successful emotion mightiness beryllium nan astir vulnerable rebellion of all.
Van Dusen executive produces done his CVD Productions. Also executive producing are Kardashian; Milchan and Martin Salgo of Crescent Line Productions; Roberts, Karah Preiss, and Matt Matruski of Belletrist; David Sweeney and Bleidner.
Netflix primitively landed Calabasas for improvement successful April 2024 aft a bidding warfare pinch a different showrunner, I. Marlene King, and a different premise, astir a 16-year-old sheltered Midwestern Catholic schoolhouse woman who transfers to nan accelerated world of Calabasas High.
Kardashian, who, on pinch her family, made nan able Los Angeles area enclave of Calabasas world famous, has been a driving unit down nan project, moving alongside chap producers Roberts, pinch whom she starred connected American Horror Story: Delicate, and Milchan.
This is Van Dusen’s 2nd Netflix bid aft Bridgerton, which he created and served arsenic showrunner connected for nan first 2 seasons. Bridgerton‘s first play was 1 of nan first shows Jinny Howe, Netflix’s Head of Scripted Series, U.S. and Canada, worked connected aft she joined nan streamer.
“It’s breathtaking to reunite pinch Chris Van Dusen and bring his chopped sound to Calabasas, alongside nan powerhouse squad of Kim Kardashian, Emma Roberts, and Alexandra Milchan,” Howe said. “Full of romance and analyzable relationships, this coming-of-age communicative is arsenic emotionally crisp arsenic it is grounded successful nan analyzable reality of uncovering your authentic self. We’re excited for this caller imaginative section pinch Chris, and to activity intimately pinch him to bring this vibrant world to life.”
Calabasas is nan first bid nether Van Dusen’s Netflix wide deal. As portion of nan pact, he will create and executive nutrient caller scripted shows, exclusively for nan streamer.
“I’ll everlastingly beryllium trying to wrap my caput astir being fortunate capable to get to activity pinch imaginative partners this smart, supportive, and eager — from Kim Kardashian, Emma Roberts and nan full producing team, to Bela Bajaria, Jinny Howe and everyone astatine Netflix,” Van Dusen said. “Calabasas is nan benignant of bid I’ve ever dreamed of making. It’s nan benignant of glamorous, bold, addictive and emotionally-charged show I grew up obsessed with. The awesome teen dramas of that era proved TV could beryllium escapist, provocative, and profoundly individual each astatine once. To get to bring that type of chaotic thrust to today’s audiences is incredibly exciting. And much evidently I’ll return each nan free aliases heavily-discounted smoothies from Erewhon I tin get. That portion too.”
Calabasas joins Netflix’s existent YA roster that includes celebrated existent bid specified arsenic Ginny & Georgia, Outer Banks, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Forever, My Life With nan Walter Boys and XO, Kitty arsenic good arsenic upcoming titles The Body, Poser, Little House connected nan Prairie, and nan Victorious reboot, Hollywood Arts.
The Bridgerton beingness has featured connected Netflix’s Global Top 10 complete 60 times, reaching nan section Top 10 successful each countries tracked. Seasons 1 and 3 are presently connected Netflix’s Most Popular TV List of each time, each 1 exceeding 100M views successful their first 91 days.
Van Dusen is repped by WME, Literate and The Nord Group.
