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EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha for representation.
A writer, producer, and director, Padilha is presently astatine activity successful Los Angeles connected Prime Video’s Delphi, wherever he serves arsenic head and executive producer. Produced by Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Amazon MGM Studios, nan bid marks nan first live-action tv description of the Creed franchise — which is itself an description of nan Rocky boxing franchise. Padilha is directing nan aviator and aggregate consequent episodes of nan inaugural season.
Padilha first collapsed done pinch nan Brazilian crime flick Elite Squad, based connected a caller by Luiz Eduardo Soares, which won nan Golden Bear astatine nan Berlin Film Festival. He besides helmed nan sequel, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, which became nan highest-grossing movie of each clip successful Brazil. Later, he directed nan 2014 Sony/MGM reboot of RoboCop and action thriller 7 Days successful Entebbe for Focus, Participant and Working Title.
Padilha is besides wide known arsenic nan co-creator, executive producer, and lead head of Netflix’s Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated crime drama, Narcos. Earlier successful his career, his documentary Bus 174 earned some Emmy and Peabody recognition. He besides directed acclaimed docs Garapa and Secrets of nan Tribe.
Padilha continues to beryllium represented by Entertainment 360 and Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard.
