told GQ in a new video feature about his “most iconic” characters. “As like, a funny way of doing it.
18.03.2023 - 01:19 / variety.com
Angelique Jackson “Beyhive, don’t kill us,” Donald Glover said, with just a hint of nerves in his voice, at the Los Angeles premiere of “Swarm,” his latest series for Amazon’s Prime Video. “It’s not that bad. It’s actually, like, pretty cool.” The quip came at the end of Glover’s remarks on Tuesday night as he introduced the show, which is now streaming. The buzzy, immersive special screening followed the show’s debut as SXSW’s opening night TV offering on March 17. At this event, though, Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon and MGM Studios, and Vernon Sanders, head of global TV, introduced Glover, which was appropriate since “Swarm” marks his first project under their lucrative overall deal with the “Atlanta” creator and star.
“We’re really in the hive here,” Salke began, going on to praise the show as an “incredible, original vision.” Added Sanders: “When we heard the pitch from Donald and Janine, we were blown away. It was wildly original, it was unlike anything else.” Glover was then joined at the microphone by his co-creator Janine Nabers and series star and producer Dominique Fishback. Fishback plays Dre, an off-kilter and obsessed fan of a Beyoncé-esque pop star named Ni’jah (Nirine Brown). Over the course of seven episodes, it becomes clear that Dre will stop at nothing in her quest to meet her favorite artist. “You’re a killer bee. Part of the swarm,” a character named Hailey (played by Paris Jackson) jokes in an early episode. “Talk about Ni’jah, you get stung.” Fandom is usually all in good fun, but for Dre, stanning her favorite pop star is no laughing matter. On the carpet, Glover explained that the concept of a Black woman serial killer was born from the internet — or, more specifically, a tweet he read. “I
told GQ in a new video feature about his “most iconic” characters. “As like, a funny way of doing it.
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In a profile published today, Donald Glover gave GQ’s Mark Anthony Green his take on the generally lukewarm, sometimes angry public attitude toward the third season of Atlanta. The season, which aired in March 2022, six months before the premiere of the series’ fourth and final series (which received a much more favorable critical response), was an experimental endeavor. Set in Europe and regularly exploring tangential storylines, it often meandered far afield from the show’s central plot.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Malia Obama is staying in the Donald Glover business. As part of a new GQ cover story on the “Atlanta” creator, Glover revealed that his newly-created production company, Gilga, is developing a short film with Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama. GQ confirmed Malia is “creating” the short film. It’s unconfirmed at this time if Malia will direct the project. Malia already has experience working with Glover as part of the writer’s room of his buzzy Amazon Prime Video series “Swarm,” which debuted March 17 on the streaming platform. Malia had a writing credit on the show’s fifth episode, “Girl Bye,” alongside series co-creator Janine Nabers.
Donald Glover takes his satirical style into new territory with horror thriller series Swarm.Created by Glover and Janine Nabers (Watchmen), the series follows Dre (Dominique Fishback) and her obsession with world-famous popstar Ni’Jah (Nirine S. Brown) which leads her down a dark path.Alongside Fishback, the series stars Chloe Bailey as Dre’s sister Ris, with guest appearances from Damson Idris, Rory Culkin, Paris Jackson, Byron Bowers and Billie Eilish.Amazon Prime Video hasn’t officially announced a second season.The project is the first to come from Glover’s deal with Amazon, so it’s unclear whether this will be an ongoing series or a standalone experiment.Speaking to Elle, Nabers gave a definitive answer on whether Dre’s story will continue in a second season.
Swarm, the new Amazon Prime Video show from Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, made its bow earlier this month.The satirical thriller series debuted on the streaming service on March 17, with the likes of Dominique Fishback, Chloe Bailey and Billie Eilish all starring.Swarm follows Dre (played by Fishback), “a young woman whose obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn”. You can watch the official trailer for Swarm below.“It’s based on true events,” Glover told The Hollywood Reporter about the show, which he described as “a post-truth TV show”.“I know there’s a lot of heavier issues or ideas but it really boiled down to, is this something that’d be fun to watch?… That’s something that we talked a lot about [in the writers’ room], like, this could be really kind of weird.”Swarm is available to stream in the UK on Amazon Prime Video, with all seven episodes of the show now available to watch.
Donald Glover is here, with the acclaimed actor, writer and Childish Gambino musician co-creating Swarm with Janine Nabers.The new satirical thriller series debuted on Amazon Prime Video on March 17, with the likes of Dominique Fishback, Chloe Bailey and Billie Eilish all starring.Swarm follows Dre (played by Fishback), “a young woman whose obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn”. You can watch the official trailer for Swarm below.The first season of Swarm consists of seven episodes, all of which arrived on Prime Video on March 17.The seven episodes are titled: ‘Stung’, ‘Honey’, ‘Taste’, ‘Running Scared’, ‘Girl, Bye’, ‘Fallin’ Through The Cracks’ and ‘Only God Makes Happy Endings’.Speaking to Vulture about the writing process, Glover, who created Atlanta, said: “We talked a lot about mental health and the internet in the writers’ room.
A.D. Amorosi In Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ “Swarm,” a highly-detailed dedication to all-things Beyoncé and her “Bey Hive” fanbase is key to the show’s menacingly satirical look at obsessive fandom turned murderous. Credit “Swarm” production designer Sara K. White with taking its creators’ ideal of singing sensation Ni’Jah (Nirine S. Brown) to nuanced extremes, while folding “The Swarm” and its greatest devotee Dre (Dominique Fishback) into Glover’s dreamlike “Atlanta” universe. “I knew ‘Swarm’ was a sister to ‘Atlanta,’” said White of Glover’s beloved FX series. “What I wanted to evoke, then, was their shared interest in authenticity and irreverence to the point of whimsy.”
Swarm, Amazon Prime's buzzy new limited series from executive producer Donald Glover, has an ironically fierce online fanbase for a show about the dark side of obsessive fandoms. But with Chloe Bailey, , and even Malia Obama, who receives a writing credit on the show, that was probably bound to happen. Right?In the genre-bending horror-comedy, Andrea “Dre” Greene (Dominique Fishback) is obsessed with a pop star analogous to Beyoncé.
Black creatives’ struggle in the media world can often feel quite stark. “Swarm,” the new Amazon prime series from the collective minds of Janine Nabers and Donald Glover, is in its first week of release at the time of writing.
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Swarm, the new Amazon Prime Video TV series created by Donald Glover.The seven-episode show follows Dre (played by Dominique Fishback), whose obsession with a pop star plunges her into a dark world.Obama is credited as a staff writer on all seven episodes of the new show and wrote the teleplay to its fifth episode, titled ‘Girl, Bye’.Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Glover’s co-creator and Atlanta writer-producer Janine Nabers praised Obama’s work. “Some of her pitches were wild as hell, and they were just so good and so funny,” she said. “She’s an incredible writer.
Debuting to critical acclaim and lots of theories about its parallels to Beyonce and the Beyhive, is a wildly captivating comedy-horror series about a young girl whose obsession with a pop star and deep love for her sister sends her down a violent path.«It's also just really the story of a woman, who by any means necessary, is trying to get to the one thing that she understands in her life and the one thing that completes her,» showrunner Janine Nabers said. Co-created by Donald Glover and Nabers, the seven-part story stars Dominique Fishback as the central antihero, Andrea «Dre» Green, and Chloe Bailey as her sister, Marissa, with the likes of Billie Eilish, Damson Idris, Kiersey Clemons and Paris Jackson appearing as some of the ill-fated characters who come across with Dre. «When I was younger, I watched with Charlize Theron… And I watched Heath Ledger do the Joker and you see all of these people get to really tap into different characters,» Fishback said of wanting to take on this role. «I was like, 'Man, I want to get the opportunity to really just stretch myself as an actor and explore the human psyche in ways that I would never do.' …And, I feel like I got that freedom to do so at Dre's expense.
Donald Glover has shared a new EP created in conjunction with his new horror TV series Swarm.The new Amazon Prime Video series was created by Glover alongside Janine Nabers, and features Billie Eilish in her acting debut.The series follows a young woman named Dre whose obsession with one of the world’s biggest pop stars as well as an unexpected trauma involving her sister, Marissa (Chloe Bailey), sets her on a dark journey across the country.As Dre continues on her increasingly violent path, she encounters characters played by Damson Idris (Marissa’s boyfriend, Khalid) as well as Byron Bowers, Kiersey Clemons, Paris Jackson, internet personality Rickey Thompson, Rory Culkin and American Auto breakout X Mayo.New music from Glover was shared in the show’s trailer, and now a full six-track EP has been released in conjunction with the show landing on Amazon.The songs see Glover collaborate with the show’s fictional star Ni’jah (Nirine S. Brown) and features contributions from Fam Udeorji, Teo Halm, Jeff Kleinman and others.Listen to the ‘Swarm’ EP below.Back in January, Glover spoke about whether or not his musical alter ego Childish Gambino was retired during an interview at the Golden Globes 2023.“I’m making music right now,” he told Laverne Cox.
Malia Obama just made her TV writing debut on Donald Glover’s new Amazon Prime Video thriller “Swarm.” The Beyoncé and BeyHive-inspired eight-episode thriller just hit Prime Video screens Friday. It tells the story of a violently obsessed fan who will stop at nothing to see her favorite Bey-like R&B star Ni’Jah in concert.
Malia Obama has had a big week. The screenwriter was spotted grabbing some lunch in Los Angeles and showing off her waist long hair. This week also marked the release of “Swarm,” the Donald Glover and Janine Nabers series she’s been working on over the past year.
While “Swarm” comes from the minds of Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, both of whom worked together on “Atlanta” before they co-created the Prime Video series, it also features contributions from Malia Obama, who makes her TV writing debut on the show.
Swarm is the new TV show from Atlanta creator Donald Glover. It stars Dominique Fishback as a huge music fan whose obsession with fictional pop star Ni'jah pushes her to extreme and violent situations.
comes from the minds of Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, both of whom worked together on before they co-created the Prime Video series, it also features contributions from Malia Obama, who makes her TV writing debut on the show. And Obama's episode does not disappoint, with Nabers, who serves as the series' showrunner, telling ET that "['Girl, Bye'] is probably one of the wildest episodes." She adds, «I think it's going to surprise a lot of people.