A new series about the American AIDS epidemic and Act Up New York (from 1987-1993) is coming to the small screen. Deadline reports that British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (“Weekend,” “Looking“) will showrun “Let The Record Show,” based on a new novel that covers New York activism surrounding the AIDS crisis. Haigh will also write and direct the pilot episode.
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The novel that was just released last month comes from author Sarah Schulman and is based on more than two hundred interviews with Act Up members.
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The novel that was just released last month comes from author Sarah Schulman and is based on more than two hundred interviews with Act Up members.
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- 6/30/2021
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Let The Record Show, written by Sarah Schulman, has been called the most comprehensive political history of American AIDS activism and Act Up.
The book, which was published last month, is now set to be adapted as a narrative TV series by Lean on Pete and Looking director Andrew Haigh, Time and Boys State producer Concordia Studio, and Halston and Carol producer Killer Films.
Haigh is set as showrunner, and will write and direct the pilot episode. He is coming off The North Water, a drama series starring Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell for the BBC and AMC.
Executive producers include Jonathan King for Concordia Studio, Christine Vachon for Killer Films, as well as David Hinojosa and Schulman. Yasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan will oversee development for Concordia.
In just six years, Act Up New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities and backgrounds,...
The book, which was published last month, is now set to be adapted as a narrative TV series by Lean on Pete and Looking director Andrew Haigh, Time and Boys State producer Concordia Studio, and Halston and Carol producer Killer Films.
Haigh is set as showrunner, and will write and direct the pilot episode. He is coming off The North Water, a drama series starring Colin Farrell and Jack O’Connell for the BBC and AMC.
Executive producers include Jonathan King for Concordia Studio, Christine Vachon for Killer Films, as well as David Hinojosa and Schulman. Yasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan will oversee development for Concordia.
In just six years, Act Up New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities and backgrounds,...
- 6/30/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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