Joe Berlinger, the groundbreaking U.S. director recognized for HBO’s Emmy-winning true crime docuseries “Paradise Misplaced,” is ready to direct a characteristic movie that may reimagine the chilly battle thriller “Fail-Protected.”
The 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, which was initially tailored for the large display by Sidney Lumet, depicts a harrowing state of affairs through which a “fail-safe” mechanical failure jams america navy’s chain of command and sends the nation hurtling towards nuclear battle with the Soviet Union.
In line with a press release, Berlinger’s tackle the novel will use a “faux-cinéma vérité method” to “reimagine what the world would appear like right now had the occasions within the ebook actually occurred in 1967, with the whole nuclear annihilation of New York and Moscow.” The movie “will mix high-stakes worldwide drama and traditional documentary-style storytelling to reinvent the Chilly Battle political thriller for brand new audiences.”
Lumet’s profitable 1964 movie starred Henry Fonda as a level-headed U.S. president and Walter Matthau as a trigger-happy political theorist. A TV model with Richard Dreyfuss, George Clooney and Harvey Keitel revisited the topic in 2000.
Berlinger’s modern reimagining of “Fail-Protected,” which is now in growth, will probably be produced by Los Angeles-based Maria Farinha Movies & Co. It’s the newly established U.S. outpost of Brazilian social influence leisure firm Maria Farinha Movies, a number one Latin American studio recognized for its hit Globoplay Authentic “Aruanas.”
Maria Farinha Movies additionally holds a minority stake in Joanna Natasegara’s London-based manufacturing firm Violet Movies, which is thought for high-profile docs reminiscent of “White Helmets,” “Virunga,” “The Fringe of Democracy” and Prince Harry’s Netflix collection “Invictus.” MFF & Co is headed by U.S. producer Miura Kite, former EVP of worldwide tv at Participant.
“’Fail-Protected’ is a gripping and immersive story that feels simply as related right now as when it first captured readers’ imaginations in 1962,” Kite stated in a press release. “We’re honored to be part of this extraordinary challenge, led by the visionary Joe Berlinger, whose physique of labor has constantly impressed audiences worldwide and sparked actual change.”
Commented Estela Renner, MFF & Co’s co-founder and chief artistic officer: “I’ve lengthy admired Joe Berlinger’s work, from his highly effective documentary ‘Crude’ about oil air pollution within the Amazon Rainforest to his distinctive collaboration with actors and the putting visible idea in ‘Extraordinarily Depraved, Shockingly Evil and Vile.’ The world has come alarmingly near nuclear accidents prior to now, and this movie highlights the important significance of the nuclear situation in an period of rising debate about privatization and using synthetic intelligence in decision-making. There’s nothing just like the universe of fiction to carry a world subject like this to the forefront of individuals’s minds.”