EXCLUSIVE: Right here’s one other independently-financed TV pilot in manufacturing – and this one has a well-known actuality couple amongst its makers.
Author-director Talia Gentle Rake and her Heavy Shovel Productions imprint have partnered with newly established manufacturing firm Madhouse Movies and The Bachelor couple Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon on Too Romantic.
Rivkah Reyes (One in all Them Days), Sam Vartholomeos (Bridge and Tunnel), and Ashley Ganger (Grand Military) have been tapped to star within the pilot, which is the newest instance of financing fashions extra routinely seen within the indie movie area than tv’s commission-centric enterprise.
Set in opposition to “the backdrop of curated lives and hyper-visible relationships,” Too Romantic follows a younger girl whose identification begins to unravel when her romantic life turns into inseparable from her on-line presence.
Producers say it attracts on Erving Goffman’s efficiency principle – which facilities on the concept social interplay as a theatrical efficiency – and is structured with references to The Wizard of Oz, inspecting the emotional price of self-surveillance within the age of on-line influencers.
Iaconetti and Haibon – who met on ABC actuality present Bachelor in Paradise in 2015 and are actually married with kids – are govt producers, alongside Gillian Kooper, Larry Furlong, Topcat and Becky Korman, Shai Korman and Lily Korman of K180 Studios.
MadHouse, which we revealed Katherine Romans and Charlie Traisman had launched in Might, is helming the mission. Author-director Gentle Rake created the mission, which is now in manufacturing in New York.
For Bachelor couple Iaconetti and Haibon, the pilot marks a transfer into scripted manufacturing. “We’re extraordinarily excited to have the chance to govt produce Too Romantic with Madhouse Movies,” stated Haibon.
“I’ve lengthy been a movie connoisseur and have all the time been keen on producing. Ashley met Talia Gentle Rake on a earlier mission and was instantly impressed by her expertise behind the digicam. After studying the script, we have been drawn to the story, the characters, and the readability of Talia’s imaginative and prescient. We felt we might supply significant perception via our expertise with influencer tradition and having a relationship within the public eye. We’re thrilled to be working with your complete solid and crew and may’t anticipate audiences to see the ultimate product.”
Too Romantic marks Gentle Rake’s debut TV mission, although she has one other authentic sequence in improvement with Ladies co-showrunner Jenni Konner.
For Madhouse, the sequence joins a slate additionally comprising the Diablo Cody-produced Forbidden Fruits; Lengthy Pork, which stars Lena Headey; Blood Boys, which incorporates Joseph Quinn amongst its solid; Emily Everhard’s FAWN; and Copy, Save, a brief from Alyssa Loh
Additional casting particulars on Too Romantic will comply with within the fall.
