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First teased in December 2022, AGBO (the manufacturing firm run by Joe and Anthony Russo) is teaming up with Netflix with a promising new upcoming sequence referred to as Jet Black. Here’s the whole lot we all know concerning the venture to this point, together with some extra new particulars.
The first point out of the present’s existence got here in an interview with Variety in December 2022, recapping the yr for Netflix and looking out ahead with Netflix’s Peter Friedlander, the pinnacle of U.S. and Canada scripted sequence.
In that interview, right here is the precise part of what was stated about Jet Black:
“[Variety:] We’ve heard you have a new project in the very early stages of development with Joe and Anthony Russo called “Jet Black,” a excessive stakes motion drama set on the planet {of professional} race automotive driving. What are you able to inform us about that potential sequence?
[Friedlander:] “Jet Black” is a brand new piece of improvement that we’re partnering with the Russos on, and it’s set on the planet of automotive racing and heists and World War II. And it’s led by the imaginative and prescient of Matthew Michael Carnahan. It’s fairly a scopic expertise and I’ll depart you with that. But it’s an enormous endeavor for us and a precedence.”
AGBO, as chances are you’ll know, is the manufacturing firm based by Joe and Anthony Russo, the duo behind Avengers: End Game and Netflix’s The Gray Man (which is Netflix’s fifth largest film launch of all time).
Joe & Anthony Russo attend the UK Fan Event to rejoice the discharge of Marvel Studios’ ‘Avengers: Endgame’ at Picturehouse Central on April 10, 2019 in London, England.
The manufacturing firm is working with Netflix on many upcoming initiatives, together with Extraction 2, The Electric State, a heist film, Past Midnight, and probably The Whisper Man.
Who is behind Jet Black on Netflix?
As talked about above, Matthew Michael Carnahan has been tapped to each write and direct the brand new sequence for AGBO and Netflix.
He’s to not be confused with Matthew Carnahan, one other author/producer/director behind House of Lies, who we hear can also be creating a venture for Netflix.
Carnahan is finest identified for his work on characteristic movies writing on World War Z, Deepwater Horizon, and 21 Bridges. In 2015, he moved into directing, engaged on the mini-series Code of Conduct and, extra just lately, directed and wrote Mosul produced with AGBO and purchased by Netflix.
What’s Jet Black on Netflix about?
As talked about within the Variety interview above, the broad define for the sequence is that it’s “set in the world of car racing and heists and World War II”.
We’ve since heard that the venture is being pitched as a criminal offense motion drama sequence concerning the origins of F1 racing in Sixties London.”
There’s loads extra to be taught on this entrance, nonetheless so keep tuned.
We’ll maintain you posted with the whole lot we learn about Jet Black as and once we be taught extra.