Barack and Michelle Obama’s production business Higher Ground Productions announced six new projects in development for Netflix Inc on Friday.
Adapting British-Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West into a film, the book narrates the story of a young couple who find magical doors to transport them to other places. But surprisingly, they find themselves in the middle of a global refugee crisis.
Former President of USA, Barack Obama had named it as one of the best books he read in 2017. The upcoming project will star the Pakistani-British actor Riz Ahmed.
Other projects that are in the pipeline include, a science-fiction movie called Satellite, which will be produced with T Street. T Street is a production company run by Star Wars director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman.
Moreover a project Tenzing is also in the production phase and it revolves around the story of the Nepalese-Indian man who first reached the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand.
A feature film, The Young Wife is about a woman who feels out of sync as a storm approaches on her wedding day.
This new drama has become Netflix s most popular series ever
The company is also developing two TV series. Firekeeper’s Daughter is a thriller based on a young adult novel by Angeline Boulley about an 18-year-old Ojibwe tribe member who reluctantly goes undercover in a police investigation on her reservation while the other series is a nature documentary about national parks.
Netflix said the projects will be released over the next few years but did not give exact release dates.
The Obamas signed a multiyear production deal with Netflix in 2018. Their earlier Netflix projects include American Factory, which won an Oscar in 2020 for best documentary.
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