EXCLUSIVE: Sam Okun Productions has optioned Darkish Facet of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich and the House Race, a historic work from Pulitzer Prize-winning creator Wayne Biddle, for improvement as an ongoing one-hour drama collection, Deadline has discovered.
Primarily based on true accounts, together with further supply materials from the e book, the present follows a rebellious MIT graduate who shatters glass ceilings to hitch NASA, the place, beneath the mentorship of Wernher von Braun, mastermind of America’s area program, she turns into a rising star. However whereas navigating the roiling sexual, social and political panorama of the ’60s and the Chilly Warfare, her dream turns into a nightmare when she uncovers Von Braun’s darkish previous.
The present is described as character-driven, with two intertwined timelines, falling tonally someplace between Classes in Chemistry and Oppenheimer.
Bosch‘s Daniel Pyne will function showrunner and exec alongside writer-producer Michael Esser, who introduced the venture to Sam Okun Productions after taking a stab at a characteristic script based mostly on the supplies. Alive Leisure’s Philip von Alvensleben and Okun may even exec produce, with Sam Okun Productions VP Christian Jean serving as co-EP. German manufacturing firm Prodco ndF (neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft) is aboard a co-production companion.
We’re instructed discussions are underway with an A-list director for Season 1, with the workforce quickly to start procuring the bundle to broadcasters and streamers.
Stated Okun, “Very like what he did with BOSCH, Dan has a tremendous present and sensibility for simplifying huge quantities of story element to inform a gorgeous and compelling character-driven story for the instances; and with Michael’s intensive analysis and experience alongside together with his outstanding story telling skills, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON will make for one stand-out present of a present!”
Added Pyne, “It’s a robust and well timed story in regards to the worth we so usually pay for progress. Who we’re, as people and as a rustic, is sophisticated, not black and white – outlined by the selections we make to succeed, or simply to outlive, and all these little lies we inform ourselves to justify what’s been achieved.”
Pyne is probably finest identified for serving as showrunner and govt producer on 4 seasons of Prime Video’s hit collection Bosch. His characteristic writing credit embrace The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears and Backstabbing for Freshmen.
Sam Okun productions final produced Prisoner’s Daughter, the Catherine Hardwicke drama, starring Kate Beckinsale and Brian Cox, which was launched by Vertical after premiering at TIFF. Lately finishing publish on the ensemble drama All There Is, that includes Elsie Fisher, Mena Suvari, Cheyenne Jackson, Jason Priestley and extra, the corporate can also be readying the worldwide collection Anatomy of a Rip-off, with Timothy Prager penning the variation and Daniel Calparsoro set to direct.
Pyne is represented by Nameless Content material and Rotham Brecher Ehrich Livingston; Okun by CAA, Latham & Watkins, and Skadden, Arps, Slate.
