Editorial Staff
This just in! Sounds like a pretty cool concept – lets see what they can do with it.
After a hotly contested bidding war, Academy Award Winning production companies See-Saw Films and New Regency have acquired the rights to Javier Gullón’s latest short story N. Gullón will adapt the story as a feature film. N has been optioned under the first look development, financing and production deal between See-Saw Films and New Regency. N will be produced by See-Saw Film’s Iain Canning and Emile Sherman with Peter Dealbert of Pacific View Management and Arnon Milchan for New Regency.
N follows a small group of journalists who are invited to a remote part of the world to witness a scientific discovery that will seemingly change the course of history, only to be forced to confront an experiment that could threaten the human race as we know it. One female journalist is left to fend for herself, alter the course of the future, and against all odds escape alive.
N is the first project announced under the See-Saw Films New Regency deal and follows the successful joint venture on the Steve McQueen heist thriller Widows which was released by Twentieth Century Fox in the US this past weekend. Widows is produced by Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Arnon Milchan, and is a New Regency and See-Saw Films production.
New Regency will finance N with Twentieth Century Fox set to handle worldwide distribution rights, as per the See-Saw New Regency deal.
Widows stars Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriquez and Cynthia Erivo, along with Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Robert Duvall and Daniel Kaluuya. In addition to directing, McQueen also co-wrote the script with Gillian Flynn.
See-Saw Film’s VP of Creative Affairs Negin Salmasi brought N to See-Saw Films and will oversee the project from the company’s LA Office.
Gullón credits include Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the revenge thriller Aftermath starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and produced by Darren Aronofsky. He is currently writing an original sci-fi pilot entitled Glare for Bad Robot and WBTV as well as adapting the sci-fi noir novel The Dark Side for Fox and Steve Zaillian.
Joe Mann of CAA and Robert Szymanski of Eclipse Law brokered the deal on behalf of Javier Gullón. Simon Gillis and Eric Roth negotiated on behalf of See-Saw Films and New Regency respectively.
Gullón is repped by CAA, Peter Dealbert of Pacific View Management and Rob Szymanski of Eclipse Law.
