Now, Variety reports that Pitt’s production company, Plan B Productions, is teaming up with Netflix to adapt the graphic novel series Black Hole by Charles Burns. The sci-fi horror TV series has been given a direct-to-series order. Plan B will executive produce, while New Regency and Netflix will co-produce. Jane Schoenbrun is attached as showrunner and to direct the series.
According to an official logline, Black Hole focuses on the town of Roosevelt, where anyone who has sex too young contracts a virus that turns them into a monster. The protagonist, Chris, a high school senior, catches said virus, forcing her to become an outcast in the woods surrounding the town — all while a serial killer hunts down those infected.
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Mark Ronson Memoir ‘Night People’ Lands At Warner Bros.; Plan B Producing Feature Take
In a highly competitive situation, Warner Bros. has snapped up the Mark Ronson feature package Night People, based on his bestselling coming-of-age memoir, which as reported last month, has Brad Pitt’s Plan B aboard to produce.
Published with Grand Central on September 14, Ronson’s memoir (full title: Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City) was an immediate New York Times Bestseller and Sunday Times Bestseller in the UK. Both a personal coming-of-age story and a snapshot of a transformative era in music and nightlife, the book recounts the elite record producer’s early years, unpacking how his upbringing and family life informed his tastes, ambitions, and eventual path into DJing in ’90s NYC.
Venice Film Festival Awards
Heading into Saturday night’s awards ceremony, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab was widely viewed as the movie to beat for this year’s Golden Lion. The powerful Gaza-set drama, which tells the story of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl’s desperate pleas for rescue after Israeli forces killed her relatives, received a thunderous 21-minute standing ovation at its world premiere, one of the longest in the Venice Film Festival‘s history.
But the film ended up going home with the festival’s Silver Lion for the Grand Jury prize, aka second place.
Hollywood heavyweights Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón boosted the movie’s profile ahead of the festival by joining its team as executive producers, while critics on the Lido hailed it as an “intensely involving and resounding” indictment of Israel’s genocidal campaigns against the Palestinian population.
‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Director Hopes Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix Joining Gaza Drama as Producers Will ‘Mean Something’
Plan B, the production biz Brad Pitt founded with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, has launched a European subsidiary.
Plan B Europe will be based in London and led by Ed Macdonald, the Clerkenwell Films exec best known for era-defining Netflix show Baby Reindeer.
The European office will will to increase the number of premium-tier series Plan B makes in the UK and across Europe. Plan B’s international TV efforts to date have included co-producing Netflix’s other major British drama hit of recent years, the Stephen Graham-starring Adolescence.
Tunisia Picks Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix-Backed ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ as Best International Feature Submission
Tunisia has named The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania its official submission for best international feature film at the Oscars.
The news was confirmed Thursday by the National Center for Cinema and Image, just two days after it was announced that Hollywood heavyweights — including Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara — had boarded the film as executive producers ahead of its world premiere in Venice. It heads to TIFF shortly after for its North American premiere.
