EXCLUSIVE: Melissa George (The Mosquito Coast) is ready to star in Ms. X, a brand new crime dramedy commissioned by Warner Bros. Discovery’s TV3 in New Zealand.
Plus6Four and South Pacific Photos will produce, with Dynamic Tv co-producing and dealing with worldwide distribution. The sequence is made potential with funding from NZ On Air and the NZ Display Manufacturing Rebate and is predicted to premiere subsequent spring. Manufacturing begins June 2nd.
Written and created by New Zealanders Hannah Marshall and David de Lautour, Ms. X facilities on a suburban mum (George) who groups up with an outdated highschool buddy to scare her dishonest husband into staying trustworthy. However when issues flip (by chance) homicidal, she is pulled right into a legal underworld, caught between the cops, the cartel and a vicious PTA.
The present can be directed by De Lautour and govt produced by Gareth Williams, Marshall, and De Lautour for Plus6Four Leisure, Kelly Martin for South Pacific Photos, and Daniel March for Dynamic Tv.
“Ms. X is a particular, quick paced crime thriller that’s each relentless, suspenseful and enjoyable,” mentioned March, who serves as Managing Accomplice at Dynamic Tv. “Melissa George is a worldwide star who will make Ms. X a personality audiences gained’t quickly overlook.”
Commented EP-showrunner Marshall, “Ms. X is a darkly comedian look into the New Zealand legal underworld, that blends our distinctive model of kiwi humour with a twisting crime story, made particularly for a worldwide viewers.”
Added South Pacific Photos’ CEO, Martin, “Ms. X is an thrilling new sequence from Hannah and David – alongside Melissa we now have a few of NZ’s best performers and practitioners and we look ahead to delivering a world class sequence.”
Along with Apple TV+’s Mosquito Coast, which aired for 2 seasons, George has been seen starring in HBO’s unique incarnation of In Therapy, incomes a Golden Globe nomination for her flip as anesthesiologist Laura Hill. Additionally beforehand starring in each the Australian and U.S. variations of The Slap, she extra just lately co-starred with Catherine Deneuve within the Cannes movie Peaceable. Different movie credit embrace Mulholland Drive, Amityville Horror, and The Eddy. The actress is repped by Gersh, Encourage Leisure, Mitch Smelkinson at GGSSC, and Cameron’s Administration in Australia.
Marshall beforehand collaborated with De Latour on the crime drama sequence Alibi and has additionally written on exhibits like Double Parked, Raised by Refugees, and The Darkness. She is repped by Johnson and Laird Administration and Sue Barnett and Associates.
Beforehand directing on Alibi, in addition to the exhibits The Brokenwood Mysteries, My Life Is Homicide and Westside, De Lautour is repped by Johnson and Laird, Morrissey Administration, Zero Gravity, CAA, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
