Vice Studios has chosen Pen15 co-creator Sam Zvibleman to adapt Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel Flat Earth, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered. Zvibleman and Levy will co-write, with Zvibleman directing the pilot.
“Sam was at the top of my wish list. His work is distinguished by a sensitive male gaze and a sincere curiosity about the inner lives of women,” Levy mentioned in a press release despatched to THR. “There’s no one I trust more to translate Flat Earth to television.”
Zvibleman wrote and directed many of the Pen15 episodes for Hulu; Pen15, a comedy about center schoolers “navigating the awkwardness of their teenage years,” was nominated for 4 Primetime Emmy Awards. Zvibleman directed full seasons of the CBC collection The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island and Take My Spouse for NBCUniversal.
Flat Earth is described as a “wry, sharply observed portrait of female ambition in New York at a moment when attention spans are at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high. It follows two desperate young women — best friends Avery and Frances — as they navigate friendship, rivalry, obsession and survival in a city that perennially produces young, hot, brilliant women with curatorial level taste and then discards them when they’ve aged out of the proverbial pleated skirt.”
Our entry level is Frances’ experimental documentary, Flat Earth, which takes the women on a cross-country highway journey, the place “red America and blue America begin to look like different brands of the same competing hallucination,” the outline continues. “As Frances ascends in the art world, Avery flails financially and emotionally — and the nationwide Adderall shortage isn’t helping. She dates men who hate her, including a liberal law professor twice her age and a reactionary young artist, before eventually taking a job, out of desperation, at a right-wing dating app called Patriarchy and sliding into a series of increasingly transactional relationships.”
It doesn’t assist when Frances concurrently turns into well-known and pregnant, resulting in Avery’s unraveling.
Vice Studios lately made headlines for its coming adaptation of the online game franchise Payday, which THR exclusively revealed in March. Vice is at present in manufacturing on Gangs of London and can quickly launch feature film Bad Apples starring Saoirse Ronan. The studio can be expanding the Gangs of London franchise within the close to future.
Zvibleman is repped by Iconoclast and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
