Mediawan and Miramax TV have closed a deal to develop and produce together high-end scripted programming, including series and straight-to-platform feature films, for the international marketplace.
As Deadline reported in November, the companies already are developing a series based on Miramax’s film Chocolat, which starred Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche.
French screenwriter Chloé Marçais (Fais pas ci, fais pas ça) is adapting in her native language, with Nathalie Perus from Atlantique Productions, a Mediawan company, executive producing in France.
The companies also are developing a serial adaptation of a best-selling sci-fi conspiracy novel by René Barjavel: Le Grand Secret (English title: The Immortals).
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