By Three relatively well-known actor/directors have set up new projects. First up, “Star Trek” royalty Jonathan Frakes is set to both produce and direct the sci-fi series “Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime” which currently isn’t set up at a streamer.
In the series, a team of scientists is trapped in the gaseous inferno of Venus, a woman named Sparta must risk her life to save them, unaware her actions will help recover a mysterious artifact and help her learn the truth about her own identity.
The six-episode series is set to go into production at the end of this year in Canada. Writers David Cormican (“Tokyo Trial”) and Dwayne Hill (“Northern Rescue”) serve as executive producers and showrunners. Anand Ramayya and Juliette Hagopian also produce.
Next, “The Alienist” and Marvel actor Daniel Brühl will direct the biopic “Break”. Hossein Amini penned the script based on Marshall Jon Fisher’s book “A Terrible Splendor”.
The film deals with tennis champion Gottfried von Cramm (played by Felix Kammerer) whose rise to stardom in the 1930s saw him face off with the Nazi regime in his native Germany.
Finally, renowned French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve has revealed her next film will be “If Love Should Die” – a biopic of 18th century English writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. The author, mother of “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, laid the groundwork for the feminist movement.
Set on the eve of the French Revolution, an impoverished young Englishwoman makes the bold decision to leave her life according to the ideals of the enlightenment. The project will film in the United Kingdom, France, Scandinavia and Portugal in 2025,
Source: Variety
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