EXCLUSIVE: Captain Marvel writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are set to direct the primary 4 episodes of Prime Video‘s Legal, a drama primarily based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel collection created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
Legal was ordered to collection in January and is presently in pre-production in Portland. Brubaker, who penned the pilot script, co-showruns with crime fiction writer Jordan Harper (Hightown).
The TV present is described as an interlocking universe of crime tales. As Brubaker defined to Deadline in a 2019 interview, “Legal tells the interweaving saga of a number of generations of households tied collectively by the crimes and murders of the previous.”
Brubaker and Harper government produce alongside Phillips, Sarah Carbiener, Phillip Barnett and Legendary Tv. The collection is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.
Up subsequent for Boden and Fleck— who co-wrote the 2019 Marvel movie Captain Marvel (with Geneva Robertson-Dworet) and co-directed the Brie Larson-starrer—is the characteristic Freaky Tales, produced by MACRO and EOne and government produced by musician Too $hort. The mission premiered on opening night time on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
Beforehand, the duo wrote and directed the movie Half Nelson starring Ryan Gosling, who obtained an Academy Award nomination for his efficiency. The movie additionally gained Film of the 12 months on the AFI Awards, obtained Spirit Award nominations for Finest Screenplay and Director and Finest Movie, Director and Breakthrough Efficiency on the Gotham Awards that yr. They subsequent wrote and directed the impartial movie Sugar, an introspective sports activities drama following the lifetime of gifted Dominican baseball participant Miguel “Sugar” Santos, which gained Film of the 12 months on the AFI Awards and obtained a Spirit Award nomination for Finest Screenplay.
In 2010, Fleck and Boden wrote and directed It’s Type of a Humorous Story starring Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis and Zoë Kravitz. Their subsequent mission, Mississippi Grind, starred Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds and was launched by A2. In TV, they directed and produced the Emmy-winning restricted collection Mrs. America starring Cate Blanchett at FX for Hulu and lately completed directing Masters of the Air, government produced by Tom Hanks/Playtone and Steven Spielberg for Apple TV+.
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