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"Four years after being ordered straight to series and hitting a speed bump at HBO, Utopia has found a new home.
Amazon Studios has handed out a nine-episode, straight-to-series order for Gillian Flynn's reboot of Utopia. Additionally, Amazon has inked the Gone Girl and Sharp Objects author to an overall deal, with Utopia set as the first project under the pact.
Based on Dennis Kelly's British series of the same name, the drama revolves around a group of young adults who meet online and are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization. After they come in to possession of a near mythical cult underground graphic novel, they discover the conspiracy theories in the comic's pages may actually be real and are forced into the dangerous, unique and ironic position of saving the world.
Flynn will be credited as the lone creator on Utopia on which she will also exec produce and serve as showrunner. Exec producers include Flynn's Sharp Objects collaborator Jessica Rhoades, Sharon Hall, Karen Wilson, Kelly and Diederick Santer. The series is a co-production between Endemol Shine North America, its U.K. production studio Kudos and Amazon Studios. Endemol Shine North America president of scripted and unscripted Sharon Levy will oversee for the company."
"Four years after being ordered straight to series and hitting a speed bump at HBO, Utopia has found a new home.
Amazon Studios has handed out a nine-episode, straight-to-series order for Gillian Flynn's reboot of Utopia. Additionally, Amazon has inked the Gone Girl and Sharp Objects author to an overall deal, with Utopia set as the first project under the pact.
Based on Dennis Kelly's British series of the same name, the drama revolves around a group of young adults who meet online and are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization. After they come in to possession of a near mythical cult underground graphic novel, they discover the conspiracy theories in the comic's pages may actually be real and are forced into the dangerous, unique and ironic position of saving the world.
Flynn will be credited as the lone creator on Utopia on which she will also exec produce and serve as showrunner. Exec producers include Flynn's Sharp Objects collaborator Jessica Rhoades, Sharon Hall, Karen Wilson, Kelly and Diederick Santer. The series is a co-production between Endemol Shine North America, its U.K. production studio Kudos and Amazon Studios. Endemol Shine North America president of scripted and unscripted Sharon Levy will oversee for the company."
