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The Mediapro Studios has boarded Nicolas Winding Refn‘s reimaginging of The Famous Five.
The Madrid-based content house has struck a production deal with BBC Studios includes distribution rights to the upcoming kids series in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
The series is a retelling of the bestselling Enid Blyton novels published between 1942 ands 1963, and comes from Winding Refn’s byNWR and BBC Studios-backed indie Moonage Pictures, which is behind The Pursuit of Love and Bodies, with The Mediapro Studio now an associate producer.
Danish auteur Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) co-created the series with Moonage’s Matthew Read, and both are exec producers. It is being made for the BBC in the UK and ZDF in Germany, with BBC Studios already pre-selling it to France’s TF1.
In an exclusive interview with Deadline ahead of Mipcom Cannes in October, where The Famous Five launched, Winding Refn said he was ” finally making something that my kids would actually watch.”
The Famous Five will star four rising star actors who will lead as the young protagonists: siblings Julian, Dick and Anne are played by Elliott Rose (The Northman), Kit Rakusen (Foundation) and Flora Jacoby Richardson respectively, with Diaana Babnicova (Don’t Breathe 2) cast as their cousin, Georgia. Jack Gleeson (Game of Thrones), Ann Akinjirin (Moon Knight), James Lance (Ted Lasso), Diana Quick (Father Brown) and William Abadie (Emily in Paris) have also landed roles.
Blyton’s 21 Famous Five stories take place during the children’s school holidays, which they spend all together at George’s family home, Kirrin Cottage, where they embark on action-packed adventures and remarkable mysteries.
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Anna Marie de la Fuente Enid Blyton’s iconic series of adventure novels, “The Famous Five,” is being made into a TV series, thanks to a pact forged by the BBC Studios, Germany’s ZDF and Spain’s The Mediapro Studio, in the latter’s continued bid to partner in more English-language productions. Produced by Moonage Pictures and Nicolas Winding Refn’s byNWR, the series is an ambitious adaptation of the iconic children’s adventure novels by the English author.
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