Amazon Studios has ordered a remake of Dennis Kelly’s Channel 4 drama Utopia from original maker Kudos with author Gillian Flynn writing the new screenplay.
Flynn, the author and screenwriter of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects, will be the creator, executive producer and showrunner of Utopia. Amazon Studios has greenlit a straight-to-series order of nine-episode.
Flynn has also inked an overall deal with Amazon Studios across television, marking Utopia as the first project. Utopia will be available on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories.
Utopia is based on the series written by Dennis Kelly. The new series is a co-production between Endemol Shine North America, Kudos, an Endemol Shine Group UK production studio, and Amazon Studios.
“Utopia is pure creative catnip to me. Dennis Kelly’s show blew my mind, and he has been so incredibly generous in letting me crack open his world and play around in it and make it my own weird, wild place. Utopia is all about exploring resonant issues within dark, twisted storytelling—it’s a series that’s urgent and current and a little holy-crap!, but a hell of a lot of a fun,” said Gillian Flynn.
Diederick Santer, CEO of Kudos said; “Dennis Kelly and the team at Kudos created a unique, dark and gripping British thriller, and we are incredibly excited that it has been so brilliantly reimagined by Gillian Flynn for a new global audience.”
“We are huge fans of Gillian Flynn’s electrifying work,” said Nick Hall, Head of Alternative Series for Amazon Studios. “She crafts stories that hold her audience in a constant state of suspense and subverts the expectations behind her characters. She will deliver Prime Video members a series they won’t forget, and Utopia’s relevance is sure to connect with viewers around the globe.”
Alongside Flynn, executive producers include Jessica Rhoades (who Flynn collaborated with on Sharp Objects), Sharon Hall, Karen Wilson, Dennis Kelly and Diederick Santer. Sharon Levy, President, Unscripted & Scripted Television, Endemol Shine North America, will oversee production for Endemol Shine.
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