Jac Schaeffer will direct the pilot for Holes, a brand new Disney+ collection primarily based on the best-selling e-book by Louis Sachar.
Selection stories that Jac Schaeffer, creator of WandaVision and Agatha All Alongside, has been tapped to direct the pilot for Holes. Primarily based on the best-selling e-book by Louis Sachar, the new TV collection will deal with a teenage woman who “is shipped to a detention camp the place the ruthless Warden forces the campers to dig holes for a mysterious function.“
The unique Holes novel follows “the story of Stanley Yelnats, an unlucky boy who is sent to a juvenile detention camp for a crime he did not commit. Now incarcerated at Camp Green Lake, Stanley is forced to spend his days digging holes in a dry lake bed. But as the story unfolds, Stanley discovers that both his own story and the story of his family are more connected to Camp Green Lake than he could have ever imagined.” The e-book was beforehand tailored right into a characteristic movie in 2003, which starred Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Winkler, Patricia Arquette, Jon Voight, and Tim Blake Nelson.
Schaeffer isn’t any stranger to directing; she helmed the 2009 sci-fi romantic comedy TiMER starring Emma Caulfield and three episodes of Agatha All Alongside. Alina Mankin (Lodge 49) will function author and govt producer on the collection, with Liz Phang (Yellowjackets) set as showrunner and govt producer.
Drew Goddard will govt produce the Holes collection by way of his Goddard Textiles banner alongside Sarah Esberg. “My mom’s been a schoolteacher for her whole life and, as such, she’s served as a de facto book scout for Goddard Textiles,” Goddard mentioned. “She always knows what ‘the kids’ are into long before everyone else does. ‘Holes’ was the first book she suggested to me – this was back in the late ‘90s – and she was positive it was going to be a phenomenon. It feels good to bring it full circle for Mrs. Goddard and her sixth grade class.” He added that Mankin and Phang have “achieved an exquisite job capturing Louis Sachar’s distinctive spirit. To say far more about what they’ve in retailer would spoil all of the enjoyable.“
