Liz Watts, exec producer of Netflix’s Cate Blanchett drama Stateless, has struck an overall deal with NBCUniversal’s Matchbox Pictures.Watts, who is currently exec producing Tony Ayres and Belinda Chayko’s Australian megafires series Fires for Australian public broadcaster ABC, will develop and produce scripted series with The Slap producer.Stateless launched on the streamer last year after its debut on Australia’s ABC.
Watts’s other TV and film credits include miniseries The Kettering Incident, the Oscar-nominated Animal Kingdom, which was the basis for the TNT drama, The King for Netflix starring Timothée Chalamet, The True History of the Kelly Gang from director Justin Kurzel and starring Russell Crowe, and Cate Shortland’s Lore.Watts’
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