Thursday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

Prime Video, Screenline develop drama duo

Banijay Entertainment-owned Screenline Productions in France is developing two scripted projects for Prime Video, with a film named Tempête and a television adaptation of Joël Dicker’s thriller Un Animal Sauvage.

Directed by Edouard Salier (Les Sentinelles) and co-written by Matthieu Rumani and Nicolas Slomka, Tempête is set during the devastating storm that swept across France in December 1999 and tracks two teens battling for survival.

Screenline is also developing Joël Dicker’s Un Animal Sauvage, a psychological thriller that explores how four characters are drawn into a dangerous web of desire, deception, and secrets, ahead of an infamous robbery.

Screenline Productions was launched in 2022 by Alexia Laroche-Joubert and Frédéric Lussato and is behind miniseries Culte for Prime Video, which was inspired by the real life-events of Loft Story, the French adaptation of Big Brother.

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch to return on Netflix

Netflix has extended Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch into a second season, a day after the adult animation show premiered.

Liev Schreiber will return as the voice for Sam Fisher for the second run, alongside Zinnia Mckenna as Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

The show is from Derek Kolstad (John Wick) and directed by Guillaume Dousse, who exec produces with Helene Juguet, Hugo Revon and Gerard Guillemot for Ubisoft Film & Television

The series marked the first adaptation of the stealth video game franchise Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, with the show following agent Sam Fisher as he is drawn back into the field when a wounded young operative seeks out his help. Sun Creature and Fost also produce.

House of Guiness star set for A24 comedy

The cast for A24’s forthcoming comedy It Gets Worse has been revealed, with Emily Fairn (House of Guinness) and Olive Gray (Save Me) leading the line-up alongside writer and creator Leo Reich.

The trio star as Ethan, Abi and Sam who, forced to disperse across London following their eviction, start to ask themselves if it gets better than humiliating jobs, non-existent love lives and a dwindling will to live.

Also among the cast are Sean Delaney, Dane Williams, India Mullen, John Tothill, Andrew Scott, Arian Nik, Lena Dunham, Blake Harrison, Vicki Pepperdine and Amelia Dimoldenberg. It Gets Worse was co-commissioned by Canada’s Bell Media for streamer Crave.