Russo Brothers’ AGBO Companions With Obamas’ Increased Floor & Netflix On ‘Exit West’, Riz Ahmed Connected
Joe and Anthony Russo’s AGBO manufacturing of Mohsin Hamid’s bestseller Exit West is coming collectively. The challenge, which now has Rogue One: A Star Wars Story‘s Riz Ahmed hooked up to star and govt produce, and Yann Demange directing, can be seeing Michelle and Barack Obama’s Increased Floor Productions and Netflix coming aboard.
A manufacturing begin of this spring is being eyed.
Deadline broke the information when the Russos snapped up the rights to Exit West again in August 2017. On the time The Imitation Recreation director Morten Tyldum was set to direct. The novel was a 2017 Man Booker Prize lengthy listing choice, and it’s not a shocker to see Increased Floor hooked up right here as Barack Obama included Exit West on his listing of high books for that yr.
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AGBO’s Mike Larocca is producing with Increased Floor’s Tonia Davis and Priya Swaminathan. Exit West was initially developed with scribe Jessica Goldberg, however a brand new author is anticipated to deal with the challenge.
Hamid wrote The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The way to Get Filthy Wealthy in Rising Asia. Exit West addresses related themes, because it facilities across the international refugee disaster. In an unidentified nation, younger Saeed and burqa-wearing Nadia flee their residence after Saeed’s mom is killed by a stray bullet and their metropolis turns more and more harmful on account of worsening violent clashes between the federal government and guerrillas. The couple joins different migrants touring to safer havens by way of fastidiously guarded doorways. By way of one door, they wind up in a crowded camp on the Greek Island of Mykonos. By way of one other, they safe a non-public room in an deserted London mansion populated principally by displaced Nigerians. A 3rd door takes them to California’s Marin County. In every location, their relationship is by turns strengthened and examined by their battle to search out meals, ample shelter and a way of belonging amongst emigrant communities.
The allegorical story reveals the distinction between the migrants’ tenuous every day actuality and that of the privileged second- or third-generation native inhabitants who’d want that their new alien neighbors merely disappear.
The Russos directed the best grossing film of all-time — Avengers: Endgame — final yr which amassed $2.98 billion on the international field workplace. They lately completed the Tom Holland indie film Cherry and can debut the Chris Hemsworth motion drama Extraction on Netflix on April 24.
Increased Floor lately received finest function doc on the Oscars for American Manufacturing facility, additionally made with Participant Media. Demange’s function credit embrace fall 2019’s White Boy Rick about 1980s undercover teenage FBI informant Richard Wershe Jr.
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