EXCLUSIVE: Justin Calen-Chenn, a employees author on Netflix’s current crime motion sequence The Brothers Solar from creators Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu, has signed with M88 for administration.
Starring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien and Sam Tune Li, the present watched as Charles Solar (Chien), a Taipei gangster who’d settled into his life as a ruthless killer, headed to L.A. to guard his mom and youthful brother after his father was shot by a mysterious murderer.
Calen-Chenn drew on a lot of his personal private life expertise within the writers’ room, having been homeless as a youngster and fallen into a lifetime of crime earlier than departing that life a few years later after a extreme tragedy occurred.
Beforehand serving as an govt story editor on the second season of Peacock’s Bel-Air, from EPs together with Will Smith and Malcolm Spellman, the Taiwanese-American artistic is a author and co-producer on the forthcoming third season. Most not too long ago, he offered a sports activities/crime TV sequence to Paramount alongside NBA legend Carmelo Anthony and Justin Simien’s Tradition Machine.
A 2020 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow, Calen-Chenn can be writing function initiatives for an array of business heavy hitters, together with Fifth Season, Matt Jackson, Ma Dong Seok (Don Lee), Chernin, Netflix Africa, Taraji P. Henson, RuPaul, Roth/Kirschenbaum, Made With Love, AMC, and extra. Different initiatives embrace a rap horror function with Eli Roth, 50 Cent, and 3BlackDot, in addition to a criminal offense actioner with Common and 87North, which has Ludacris set to star.
Calen-Chenn continues to be represented by CAA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
