Peacock has landed for development Red Queen, a drama based on the best-selling YA fantasy novel by Victoria Aveyard. Elizabeth Banks is set to play a major supporting role and direct the potential series, which she and Max Handelman are executive producing through their Brownstone Prods.
Co-written by former Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz and Aveyard, Red Queen comes from Warner Bros. TV where Brownstone and Schwartz are under overall deals. The indie studio which will co-produce with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Brownstone.
This marks one of the first marquee buys for the NBCUniversal division headed by Susan Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCU Television and Streaming, from Rovner’s former studio Wbtv.
Red Queen is set in an alternate near-future America where democracy is replaced by a monarchy led by a group of humans with superpowers who rule with an iron fist over those without powers.
Co-written by former Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz and Aveyard, Red Queen comes from Warner Bros. TV where Brownstone and Schwartz are under overall deals. The indie studio which will co-produce with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Brownstone.
This marks one of the first marquee buys for the NBCUniversal division headed by Susan Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCU Television and Streaming, from Rovner’s former studio Wbtv.
Red Queen is set in an alternate near-future America where democracy is replaced by a monarchy led by a group of humans with superpowers who rule with an iron fist over those without powers.
- 5/25/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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