Brandon Cronenberg (Possessor) has been set to adapt and direct a limited series based on Jg Ballard’s novel Super-Cannes.
Gub Neal’s (The Fall) Ringside Studios, French media company and distributor Newen, and Andy Starke (Free Fire) of Anti-Worlds Film & Television have optioned the rights and will produce.
Super-Cannes, first published in 2000, is set in an ultra-modern high tech business park in the hills above Cannes, where a global elite has gathered to form a closed, uber-capitalist, and high-tech community. A place of luxury homes, private doctors, and private security, this enclave hides an underworld of crime, sexual perversion, madness and manipulation that is rapidly spiraling out of control.
The novel has attracted screen attention for some time but this could be the first adaptation to get out of the blocks.
Ballard, one of Britain’s most acclaimed recent writers, is known for novels including The Drowned World, Crash,...
Gub Neal’s (The Fall) Ringside Studios, French media company and distributor Newen, and Andy Starke (Free Fire) of Anti-Worlds Film & Television have optioned the rights and will produce.
Super-Cannes, first published in 2000, is set in an ultra-modern high tech business park in the hills above Cannes, where a global elite has gathered to form a closed, uber-capitalist, and high-tech community. A place of luxury homes, private doctors, and private security, this enclave hides an underworld of crime, sexual perversion, madness and manipulation that is rapidly spiraling out of control.
The novel has attracted screen attention for some time but this could be the first adaptation to get out of the blocks.
Ballard, one of Britain’s most acclaimed recent writers, is known for novels including The Drowned World, Crash,...
- 5/20/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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