EXCLUSIVE: In a really aggressive scenario, Apple TV+ has landed The Vendor, a Media Res drama starring Oscar winner Jessica Chastain and Oscar nominee Adam Driver, with a straight-to-series order.
The Vendor is government produced by the A Doll’s Home, Half 2 trio of Sam Gold, Lucas Hnath and Sarah Lunnie.
Written by Hnath and to be directed by Gold, The Vendor is described as a biting exploration of energy, class, seduction and tradition set contained in the glittering world of the high-end artwork market, informed by means of the eyes of an aspiring tremendous gallerist, performed by Jessica Chastain, and the tangled relationship together with her most gifted and unnerving artist, performed by Adam Driver.
Additionally government producing The Vendor are Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res, Chastain and Kelly Carmichael for Freckle Movies, Driver and Alan Poul (Six Toes Beneath). Arianna Anderson will function co-executive producer.
This marks Media Res’ fourth collection for Apple TV+, following the Emmy- and SAG Award-winning drama The Morning Present, which is headed into its fourth season, Pachinko and Extrapolations.
It additionally marks the fourth high-profile sale for the corporate over the previous few months. Media Res just lately arrange The Band, an hourlong dramedy collection starring Ben Stiller, at HBO and likewise has bisexual romance drama Enigma Variations starring Jeremy Allen White at Netflix. After a bidding warfare, its Silicon Valley thriller Thumblite, starring Rosamund Pike, landed at Netflix in September with a straight-to-series order. Arising is The Miniature Spouse collection at Peacock, starring Matthew Macfadyen.
Gold is a theater director who gained the Greatest Path of a Musical Tony Award in 2015 for Enjoyable Home. He, Hnath and Hnath’s long-time collaborator Lunnie labored collectively on A Doll’s Home, Half 2, a play written by Hnath, directed by Gold and dramaturged by Lunnie. It earned Gold and Hnath Tony nominations in 2017, with its star Laurie Metcalf profitable the award for Actress in a Main Function in a Play. Lunnie additionally served as dramaturg for the Broadway manufacturing of Hnath’s play Hillary & Clinton.
This marks Chastain’s second collection for Apple TV+ — she stars in and government produces by means of Freckle Movies the upcoming restricted collection The Savant — and for Media Res the place she beforehand starred and government produced in its HBO restricted collection Scenes From A Marriage. Along with The Savant, Chastain will subsequent be seen within the film Lear Rex. An Oscar winner for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, an Oscar nominee for Zero Darkish Thirty and an Emmy nominee for George & Tammy, Chastain is repped by CAA and Mosaic.
The Vendor is just the second main TV collection function for Driver following his breakout activate HBO’s Ladies. In options, he just lately starred in Megalopolis and can subsequent be seen in Father, Mom, Sister, Brother. Driver, an Oscar nominee for Marriage Story and BlacKkKlansman, is repped by WME.
