As Noah Baumbach’s comedy drama Jay Kelly makes noise on the Venice Movie Pageant, it has emerged that the director is transferring into tv for the primary time in over ten years.
Baumbach is growing a collection adaptation of Andrew Ridker’s novel Hope with A24.
Baumbach has beforehand labored with the studio on Whereas We’re Younger, his 2014 movie starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfriend.
The transfer was disclosed in a longform profile of the notoriously press shy firm within the New Yorker.
Hope, set over one yr in 2013, tells the story of the Greenspans, who’re the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic and idealistic suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a profitable doctor together with his personal cardiology observe. His spouse, Deb, is a pillar of the group who spends her free time serving to resettle refugees. Their daughter, Maya, works at a distinguished New York publishing home and their son, Gideon, is making ready to comply with in his father’s footsteps. They’re an distinctive household from an distinctive place, dwelling in distinctive occasions.
However when Scott is caught falsifying blood samples at work, he units in movement a collection of scandals that threatens to shatter his household. Deb leaves him for a feminine energy dealer; Maya rekindles a hazardous affair from her youth; and Gideon drops out of faculty to go on a harmful journey that can put his rules to the take a look at.
The e-book was printed by Penguin final yr.
Baumbach, the director behind Marriage Story, White Noise and The Squid and the Whale, final labored in tv in 2012 when he directed a pilot based mostly on Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections for HBO.
In 2015, Baumbach mentioned of the undertaking, “I left it with an actual appreciation for what’s distinctly tv and what’s distinctly films. Generally that will get conflated as a result of we’re all speaking about how we’re in a golden age of TV and TV is the place extra attention-grabbing stuff is occurring. However I believe what will get misplaced in that typically is that it’s actually a special medium. For me, the problem of taking a look at one thing over an extended time frame, that was ongoing and had no finish, the place you’re simply re-generating story for each episode.”
Earlier in his profession, he wrote the Thomas Schlamme-directed TV film Thirty, which starred the likes of Eric Stoltz and Joanna Going.
On the TV facet, A24 is behind collection corresponding to HBO’s Euphoria, Netflix’s Beef and Prime Video’s Overcompensating in addition to Apple’s upcoming Margo’s Acquired Cash Troubles.
