Noah Jupe, who is starring opposite Michael Douglas in the Apple TV+ Benjamin Franklin biopic, is leading a TV drama adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ cult classic Engleby.
Jupe will play the titular character, an enigmatic outsider who graduates from 1970s campus life to 1980s Fleet Street and beyond – haunted all the while by an unsolved mystery involving a friend and fellow student during their university days. The six-part drama is described as a “quintessential British murder mystery meets acute psychological character study, with a healthy dose of dark wit.”
Michael Keillor, who is directing the upcoming BBC/Netflix drama on the Lockerbie disaster, is directing, and Channel 4-backed production outfit Freedom Scripted is producing. No network is attached as of yet. Stage and screenwriters Ryan Craig and Jess Ruston are penning the series, with Freedom Scripted’s MD Mike Ellen executive producing.
Jupe will play the titular character, an enigmatic outsider who graduates from 1970s campus life to 1980s Fleet Street and beyond – haunted all the while by an unsolved mystery involving a friend and fellow student during their university days. The six-part drama is described as a “quintessential British murder mystery meets acute psychological character study, with a healthy dose of dark wit.”
Michael Keillor, who is directing the upcoming BBC/Netflix drama on the Lockerbie disaster, is directing, and Channel 4-backed production outfit Freedom Scripted is producing. No network is attached as of yet. Stage and screenwriters Ryan Craig and Jess Ruston are penning the series, with Freedom Scripted’s MD Mike Ellen executive producing.
- 4/10/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Craig has only directed one feature in his career thus far — 2010′s Chris Pine-starring Small Town Saturday Night — and that may not change right away, as he’s been hired for a writing job at Warner Bros. As THR has learned, the director is set to script an adaptation of Takedown, a novel by Brad Thor that serves as the fifth installment of his Scott Harvath series.
Produced by Bill Gerber and Casey Wasserman, the project is something that the studio would like to be the start of a new franchise, in the (shocker) “Bourne Identity mold.” Shaky cameras, agents running around, people getting beaten with household objects? Sounds about right. There are ten books in the series, so they have plenty of room to make future installments.
The plot appears to be on a bigger scale, though, following the Harvath character in his attempt to capture a...
Produced by Bill Gerber and Casey Wasserman, the project is something that the studio would like to be the start of a new franchise, in the (shocker) “Bourne Identity mold.” Shaky cameras, agents running around, people getting beaten with household objects? Sounds about right. There are ten books in the series, so they have plenty of room to make future installments.
The plot appears to be on a bigger scale, though, following the Harvath character in his attempt to capture a...
- 9/17/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Ryan Craig ("Small Town Saturday Night") has been hired to pen an adaptation of the Brad Thor international action thriller novel "Takedown" at Warner Bros. Pictures says Heat Vision.
"Takedown" is the fifth novel in a series following Scot Harvath, a former Navy Seal Team 6 member turned black-ops counterterrorism agent. In this story, Harvath must stop a terrorist mastermind who has unleashed chaos in New York City with his latest attack over Fourth of July weekend.
Bill Gerber and Casey Wasserman are producing. Thor has penned ten novels in the series thus far, Warners acquired the rights late last year and at the time were looking at the first novel in the series - "The Lions of Lucerne" - as a potential launching pad.
"Takedown" is the fifth novel in a series following Scot Harvath, a former Navy Seal Team 6 member turned black-ops counterterrorism agent. In this story, Harvath must stop a terrorist mastermind who has unleashed chaos in New York City with his latest attack over Fourth of July weekend.
Bill Gerber and Casey Wasserman are producing. Thor has penned ten novels in the series thus far, Warners acquired the rights late last year and at the time were looking at the first novel in the series - "The Lions of Lucerne" - as a potential launching pad.
- 9/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
It’s not surprising a film like Small Town Saturday Night never found theaters. Written and directed by Ryan Craig, this small little indie about the small lives of inhabitants of a, wait for it, “small town” doesn’t offer anything controversial in content, revolutionary in technology or relevant by way of movie stars. Yes, Chris Pine stars as Rhett Ryan, a guitar-strumming dreamer on his way to Nashville and bigger and better things, but this thing was made and cut before people knew what a “Chris Pine” was.
This is the kind of movie that recalls past movies, but does it with an earnest that can only come from true experiences from real people. From now until the end of time, characters in movies will continue to say things like “everything will be alright” and “just be yourself,” and, in turn, so will characters in real life.
And why?...
This is the kind of movie that recalls past movies, but does it with an earnest that can only come from true experiences from real people. From now until the end of time, characters in movies will continue to say things like “everything will be alright” and “just be yourself,” and, in turn, so will characters in real life.
And why?...
- 6/21/2010
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Now that Chris Pine has hit it big in what promises to be one of the bigger franchise reboots of the next decade, it’s interesting to see where he’ll spend his screen time when he’s not sitting off-kilter on the captain’s chair. It’s an interesting question for every star who finds their biggest success at the start of a huge franchise, and often the non-related films they make receive a fair bit of scrutiny as audiences attempt to determine whether or not the actor has a future when that franchise ends. For Chris Pine this still applies, and so his first independent drama choice since playing Kirk has an interesting level of weight behind it, and to his credit Small Town Saturday Night works in his favor, showing off a more contemplative counterbalance to his egotistical jokester from Star Trek.
No one is more tired...
No one is more tired...
- 6/1/2010
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
See the first poster from the Ryan Craig-directed and written drama "Small Town Saturday Night," starring Chris Pine, Robert Pine, John Hawkes, Bre Blair, Lin Shaye, Muse Watson, Shawn Christian and Brent Briscoe. Coming in 2010, the film tells of a country musician whose relationship and career do not mix well. The story also involves people within the town and how the couple's relationship affects them. Craig makes his feature-length directorial debut as well as his writing debut on the project. His previous credits are for TV's "Dinner: Impossible," "Piano Man in a Guitar Town" as well as "Taildaters."...
- 11/24/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
There are few web series that I’ve enjoyed watching; of those, Matt Koval’s "The Fuplers" is probably my favorite. The series chronicles the table-time interactions of your typical Mondo Bizarro family, with Koval playing Mom, Dad, Teen Son, and lithping, pig-tailed Little Daughter. According to Koval’s profile on his website, in one year his 20-video YouTube channel has grown from 50 to 50,000 subscribers, while "The Fuplers" has been averaging 300,000 views per episode. Additionally, earlier this year Koval wrote and directed a web series for Fox Digital Studios. The Los Angeles-based filmmaker has also done work away from the Internet. Among his film credits are Ryan Craig’s feature Small Town Saturday Night, starring Star [...]...
- 11/19/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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