Iain Reid and Jason Schwartzman Adapting ‘Apples’ Film For TV – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Iain Reid and Jason Schwartzman are adapting Apples — a 2020 Greek movie of the identical identify from Christos Nikou — for the small display screen.

Nikou will direct the venture that will probably be government produced by Reid and Schwartzman, who will write. Jane Featherstone and Carolyn Strauss will EP, together with Jerome Duboz, Kate Fenske by way of Sister, and Cate Blanchett, Coco Francini, and Andrew Upton by way of Soiled Movies.

Apples will increase on the world created by Nikou for the movie, which was chosen in 2021 as Greece’s official submission for the Greatest Worldwide Characteristic class for the Academy Awards. Set in an unnamed metropolis amidst an outbreak of sudden amnesia, the collection is a comedic, heartfelt, existential, and deeply human character examine that follows a various group of latest amnesiacs who’re enrolled in an experimental restoration program designed to assist them construct new identities. 

Reid is the creator of 5 books, together with his New York Instances best-selling debut novel I’m Pondering of Ending Issues, which has been translated into greater than 20 languages and tailored as a movie for Netflix. His second novel Foe is being tailored for movie and can star Saoirse Ronan, with Reid co-writing the screenplay. His newest novel We Unfold was revealed in September.

Schwartzman most just lately starred in Wes Anderson’s upcoming movie Asteroid Metropolis and may subsequent be seen in The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. He just lately accomplished filming Jessica Yu’s untitled sister comedy venture with Awkwafina and Sarah Oh and starred reverse Chris Rock and Ben Wishaw within the fourth chapter of the collection Fargo. He additionally seems in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, a narrative which he co-wrote with Anderson and Roman Coppola.

Nikou is an Athens-born director who’s at present directing his sophomore image Fingernails for Apple. His first function was Apples. Previous to his position as director, Nikou labored as an assistant director on a number of films together with Dogtooth and Earlier than Midnight.

Reid is repped by CAA, Transatlantic Company, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown, and Passman, Inc. Nikou is repped by CAA, Ithaka Media, and Cohen Gardner LLP. Schwartzman is repped by UTA, Ocean Avenue Leisure, and Sloane, Provide, Weber, and Dern, LLP.