Berlanti Productions and Netflix are teaming up for The Grays, impressed by Oscar Wilde’s The Image of Dorian Grey
Again within the Nineties, author Oscar Wilde introduced the world a narrative known as The Image of Dorian Grey – and now the Netflix streaming service has introduced that they’re teaming up with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Tv on a brand new TV sequence known as The Grays, which ComicBook.com hears shall be “a recent tackle the Oscar Wilde traditional about our fascination with everlasting youth set towards the backdrop of the fashionable magnificence trade.“
The Image of Dorian Grey has the next description: Combining components of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the ebook facilities on a placing premise: As Dorian Grey sinks into a lifetime of crime and gross sensuality, his physique retains excellent youth and vigor whereas his lately painted portrait grows day-to-day right into a hideous document of evil, which he should hold hidden from the world.
Supergirl alum Katie Rose Rogers and All American‘s Robbie Rogers, who’re siblings who beforehand labored collectively on Fellow Vacationers, are writing The Grays. In a twist on the gothic novel, the sequence revolves round siblings Basil and Doran Grey.
Berlanti Productions’ Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman are producing the present, which has The Vicious Variety, Celeste & Jesse Eternally, and The Age of Adaline director Lee Toland Krieger on board to direct the pilot episode. Krieger has additionally labored on a number of different Berlanti-produced exhibits. Rina Mimoun, whose earlier credit embody being a supervising producer on Everwood, growing and govt producing Privileged, and govt producing Mistresses, will function showrunner.
Berlanti Productions has been behind the likes of All American, All American: Homecoming, You, Superman & Lois, Lifeless Boy Detectives, Everwood, Brothers & Sisters, Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale, Black Lightning, Titans, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Doom Patrol, Batwoman, Stargirl, The Flight Attendant, Kung Fu, and Gotham Knights, amongst others. They’re additionally working with Netflix on a live-action Scooby-Doo TV sequence.
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