‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Set for ‘Fun’ TV Series Adaptation With ‘Full Monty’ Producer Uberto Pasolini as Showrunner (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Oscar-nominated multi-hyphenate Uberto Pasolini – who produced “The Full Monty” and most recently directed “The Return,” starring Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus – has embarked on a TV series adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s classic satirical adventure “Gulliver’s Travels.” Prominent British writer William Ivory (“We Want Sex,” “The Great Escaper”) is writing the screenplay for the six-episode project on which Pasolini will serve as showrunner.
The high-end show, now in early stages, is being produced by Italy’s Roberto Sessa (“The Sea Beyond”) and Germany’s Jan Wünschmann (“The Swarm,” “Concordia”).
It will be unveiled to prospective broadcasters during the Series Mania festival in Lille. World sales will be jointly handled by Germany’s Beta Film and ZDF Studios. “What Gulliver allows us to do today is to make something really, really fun,” Pasolini told Variety.
But at the same time – very much like Swift did in his time – to talk about the world around us; to talk about politics; to talk about greed; to talk about the place of the Western man in the world as a whole; to talk about the relationship between man and nature,” he said. “All that stuff was there in the original.
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