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Aaron Taylor-Johnson (28 Years Later, Nosferatu) is group to header in Enigma Variations, a constricted bid greenlighted by Netflix based connected Call Me By Your Name writer André Aciman’s bestselling novel. In nan project, from tv workplace Media Res, he succeeds Jeremy Allen White who was primitively attached to star.
Written by Amanda Kate Shuman (The Wheel of Time) and to beryllium directed by Oliver Hermanus (The History of Sound), Enigma Variations stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson arsenic Paul, a man remade by nan lovers who ignite and undo him crossed 10 transformative years. It’s an friendly yet sweeping image of masculinity, sexuality, and modern love—and successful a world of endless choices, it asks nan question: will we cognize erstwhile we’ve recovered nan one?
Like successful nan book, Paul is sexually fluid arsenic he alternates betwixt a antheral and a female partner.
Shuman, who serves arsenic showrunner, executive produces alongside Hermanus arsenic good arsenic Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res, Aciman and Monica Levinson (Love Story: JFK Jr. And Carolyn Bessette). Media Res is nan studio.
Enigma Variations was group up astatine Netflix much than a twelvemonth ago successful a competitory business pinch White attached to prima and executive produce. He near nan task astatine nan extremity of 2025. A casting hunt for a replacement was launched, pinch Taylor-Johnson entering negations soon thereafter.
This marks nan American bid debut for English character Taylor-Johnson who has respective movies coming up, Werwulf, Blood On Snow and Cry To Heaven. He is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, WME and Sloan Offer Weber & Dern. Shuman is repped by UTA and HJTH. Levinson is repped by CAA.
Media Res has coming up Season 5 of The Morning Show for Apple TV; The Miniature Wife, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen, for Peacock; The Dealer, starring Jessica Chastain and Adam Driver, for Apple TV; The Chain for HBO; and play pilot Durango for Hulu.
