4 weeks ago
EXCLUSIVE: The buyers support lining up for Yaga, nan upcoming Canadian play bid featuring Heated Rivalry prima Hudson Williams.
HBO Max successful Europe (excluding nan UK and Ireland), Foxtel successful Australia and Sky New Zealand person acquired nan Crave bid from supplier Sphere Abacus. The deals intimately travel AMC Global Media snapping up U.S. rights and Sky taking nan UK and Ireland.
The bid comes from Bell Media-owned Crave, Blink49 Studios and Front Street Media, pinch Bell’s UK-based income location Sphere Abacus shopping it internationally arsenic some a four-part hour-long bid and successful eight-part half-hour format.
The bid stars Williams, Carrie-Anne Moss, Clark Backo and Noah Reid, and is based connected Kat Sadler’s play, which reimagines nan story of Baba Yaga arsenic a modern enigma thriller. Sadler serves arsenic writer and showrunner.
Yaga follows Rapp (Reid), a backstage interrogator who arrives successful a mini coastal municipality to analyse nan disappearance of a young heir to a powerful fishery, Henry Park (or Williams). He finds himself astatine likelihood pinch an apprehensive section detective, Carson (was Backo), a charismatic assemblage professor pinch a sensation for younger men, Katherine (Moss), and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, concealed lives, and ancient magic.
Also starring are Sheila McCarthy, Megan Follows, Ezra Franky, Patrick Gilmore, Katharine Isabelle, Hiro Kanagawa, Emilija Baranac, Georgia Acken, Anisa Harris and Sam Krochmal. David Frazee and Rachel Talalay are nan co-directors and Mackenzie Donaldson, Andrew Miller and Moss are nan exec producers. Charles Cooper is producing.
“We’re seeing a awesome consequence crossed awesome territories for this unsocial series. Yaga is simply a superb illustration of a genre-defying, high-energy accumulation – pinch an unthinkable cast,” said Hana Palmer, Sphere Abacus’ Head of Sales. “Combine these attributes pinch nan exceptional credentials of Bell Media, Canada’s premier media and contented company, we look guardant to announcing further world income successful nan weeks to come.”
