EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy-nominee Lizzy Caplan (Fleishman is in Bother, Zero Day) and BAFTA award winner Tom Riley (The Nevers, The Lady within the Home Throughout The Avenue From The Lady within the Window), have launched Westborn Footage manufacturing firm. Below the banner, the husband-wife duo will develop, produce, write and direct content material for movie and tv.
“We couldn’t resolve between beginning this firm or having one other (human) child. Finally we opted for the corporate, however have leaned right into a ‘soothing nursery aesthetic’ for all workplace house. We’re thrilled to be teaming up with so many extraordinary companions with a view to fulfill the corporate’s remit of growing character-driven, messy tales that ask the viewer to hunt out nuance at a time when it’s most below menace,” Caplan and Riley mentioned in a joint assertion.
Caplan and Riley have over 20 years of shared expertise on both facet of the digicam, each having beforehand served as producers on initiatives they’ve additionally led as actors – Caplan on the Emmy-nominated Masters of Intercourse for Showtime, and Riley on the BAFTA and Emmy-winning Da Vinci’s Demons for Starz, in addition to Darkish Coronary heart for ITV within the UK.
Deadline lately completely reported Caplan and Westborn are behind a drama undertaking a couple of fictional disaster PR exec that has landed at Netflix in a aggressive scenario with a number of bidders. Caplan stars within the drama, impressed by Shawn McCreesh’s New York Journal article “Get Me Risa Heller!, and Westborn is amongst producers. Along with Westborn, the undertaking hails from American Horror Story: Delicate showrunner Halley Feiffer, A24, Vox Media Studios and Marti Noxon‘s Tiny Pyro Productions.
Moreover, Westborn has a number of movie and tv initiatives in numerous levels of growth with Nameless Content material, Eleven Movie (UK), Killer Movies, Leviathan Productions, filmmaker Alex Ross Perry and scribe Lisa Taddeo, amongst others.
Caplan is repped by WME, Rise Administration and Impartial Expertise within the UK. Riley is with CAA, Principal Expertise and Conway van Gelder Grant within the UK. Each are repped by Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
