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Hedda writer-director Nia DaCosta has been tapped to nonstop nan aviator and 2nd section of Sex Criminals, Prime Video‘s bid adjustment of Image Comics’ title that hails from Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Tze Chun, LuckyChap and Amazon MGM Studios. DaCosta besides will executive produce. The news was revealed Monday during Amazon’s Upfront position successful New York City.
Imogen Poots and John Reynolds prima successful nan eight-episode series, co-created by Gordon, Nanjiani and Chun. Poots stars arsenic Suze, a normal woman pinch an bonzer ability: erstwhile she has sex, she stops time. One night, she meets Jon (Reynolds)… who has nan aforesaid gift. And truthful they do what immoderate different sex-having, time-stopping mates would do: they rob banks.
Nanjiani, who will besides look successful nan series, Gordon and Chun service arsenic showrunners and will executive nutrient nan bid based connected nan comic, written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky, which was primitively published successful 2013.
Gordon, Nanjiani and Dani Melia exec nutrient via Winter Coat Films alongside Chun, Dani Gorin for LuckyChap and Fraction and Zdarsky. Louie Hayes from LuckyChap is simply a producer.
DaCosta wrote, directed, and produced nan critically acclaimed Hedda, a visceral and stylized reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classical play Hedda Gabler, starring Tessa Thompson successful nan titular role. She astir precocious directed 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, nan 2nd section successful Sony’s recently expanded trilogy starring Ralph Fiennes. DaCosta directed and co-wrote The Marvels, becoming some nan youngest filmmaker and nan first Black female to helm a Marvel Studios feature. Before that, she helmed Candyman, which made her nan first Black female head to unfastened No. 1 astatine nan U.S. container office. She won nan Nora Ephron Prize astatine nan Tribeca Film Festival for her debut characteristic Little Woods. DaCosta is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang.
