Fremantle has taken international distribution rights on Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn’s Netflix sequence Penelope.
The high-end present, which premiered at Sundance, will launch tomorrow on Netflix U.S. however worldwide rights have been up for grabs.
Penelope follows the eponymous lead, performed by Megan Stott, a 16-year-old who feels misplaced in trendy society and is drawn into the unknown wilderness, the place she begins to kind a brand new life for herself. Like most youngsters in the present day, Penelope is caught up within the trendy world’s know-how, pacing and strain. However one thing is lacking, and issues really feel off, she will’t fairly put it into phrases. On the floor, her life appears fairly nice, whereas inside, there’s a fierceness that’s been brewing, a calling in the direction of a brand new manner of being.
Alongside Megan Stott, the solid additionally consists of Austin Abrams (Euphoria, Sprint & Lily, Do Revenge); Krisha Fairchild (Krisha, Channel Zero, Freeland) and Rhenzy Feliz (The Penguin, All Collectively Now, Encanto).
Fremantle is promoting outdoors of the U.S. and the transfer builds on its technique to companion on streamer exhibits that may be offered to different territories. Certainly one of its key MIPCOM titles might be Costiera, the Jesse Williams-starring Prime Video Italy sequence that’s at the moment and not using a UK or U.S. purchaser.
“Penelope could be very expensive to our hearts and we wouldn’t belief her to only anybody,” stated Duplass and Eslyn. “We’re grateful to have discovered companions that perceive, assist and encourage the story we are attempting to inform and the bigger dialog we hope to encourage.”
Duplass and Eslyn govt produce alongside Jay Duplass (Trade, The Chair) and Shuli Harel of Duplass Brothers Productions. Eslyn additionally directs and serves as showrunner. Fremantle is dealing with international distribution.
