EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is in growth on The 99’ers, a characteristic adaptation of Jeré Longman’s e-book The Women of Summer season: The US Girls’s Soccer Crew and How It Modified the World.
Nicole Kassell, the Emmy-winner identified for her work on reveals like Watchmen and Netflix’s upcoming Sirens, is about to direct from a script by Katie Lovejoy (Love at First Sight, To All of the Boys: All the time and Without end) and Dana Stevens (The Lady King, Fatherhood).
The 99’ers follows the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Crew who, in 1999, beneath the scorching summer season solar and in a stadium full of 93,000 followers, defied the percentages to emerge victorious in a dramatic penalty kick shootout towards China within the World Cup ultimate. This monumental win captivated hundreds of thousands worldwide and endlessly altered the course of girls’s sports activities.
A sports activities reporter for the New York Instances, creator Longman has additionally penned titles like The Hurricanes: One Excessive College Crew’s Homecoming After Katrina and If Soccer’s a Faith, Why Don’t We Have a Prayer?: Philadelphia, Its Trustworthy, and the Everlasting Quest for Sports activities Salvation.
Producers on The 99’ers embrace Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, together with Ryan Reynolds, Hayley Stool, and Ross Greenburg. Exec producers embrace Margaret Chernin, Marla Messing, Jill Mazursky, and Krista Smith. For Chasin’s 3dot, the venture falls beneath a artistic partnership with Netflix that the majority lately spawned The Life Listing, a YA romantic dramedy starring Sofia Carson that has spent 4 weeks at #1 on the Netflix International High 10 Movies Listing (English).
Acknowledged with an Emmy and a DGA Award for her work on Watchmen, which she additionally exec produced, Kassell’s work in tv has additionally spanned sequence like Citadel Rock, Westworld, and The People, amongst many others. Most lately, she directed on and exec produced Sirens, a cult-themed darkish comedy for Netflix, starring Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock, which premieres Could 22. She is repped by WME, Leisure 360, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
Lovejoy has beforehand been in enterprise with Netflix on its YA romantic drama Love at First Sight, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy, in addition to To All of the Boys: All the time and Without end, the third and ultimate installment within the hit YA movie sequence To All of the Boys. She is repped by Kaplan/Perrone Leisure and Myman Greenspan Fox.
Stevens scripted Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Lady King and likewise boasts credit like Fatherhood, Protected Haven, Life or One thing Like It, and For Love of the Recreation. She is repped by UTA, Untitled Leisure, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
