Submarine Readies Darkish Esports Thriller Drama ‘A.D.D.’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Dutch producer Submarine’s good week right here in Rome on the MIA Market has continued because it unveiled its newest mission.

The  Amsterdam-, LA- and London-based agency has adopted up its Bellingcat journalism thriller drama The Kollective being taken to collection by revealing up Esports thriller collection A.D.D. — a collaboration with Nick Luddington.

It’s billed as a grounded sci-fi thriller a few younger, genius gamer who joins the world’s premier e-sports group, A.D.D., in a bid to find what occurred to her older brother – a former A.D.D. megastar who mysteriously disappeared from the highlight.” She realizes the group is a part of a darkish neurological experiment and will get sucked right into a harmful rabbit gap of “company corruption, knowledge manipulation and social engineering.”

The collection will discover how a company known as Subsequent-Gen could possibly be harnessing the metaverse that the gamers compete inside for extra nefarious functions. Shot in English, it’s primarily based on a graphic novel from American creator Douglas Rushkoff. Luddington, who wrote and co-produced Netflix’s Arcane, is connected as author.

“As an enormous geek and gamer, A.D.D. couldn’t excite me extra — delving into the high-pressured world of esports and looking out on the affect it has on these younger gamers,” mentioned Luddington. “On this planet of aggressive esports, geeks and players are the heroes and celebrities, and but it’s a remarkably under-explored sphere of society for such a worldwide phenomenon. A.D.D. steps into this enviornment and explores an exhilarating imaginative and prescient of unusual metaverses, inter-player relationships and the price of success. I couldn’t be extra excited.”

The collection might be live-action however options parts of hybrid animation Submarine has pioneered in initiatives corresponding to Prime Video’s Undone and the Richard Linklater Netflix characteristic movie Apollo 10 ½. The animation will depict the visible potential and cinematics of the metaverse.

“A.D.D. is a sci-fi thriller set within the visceral and adrenaline-fuelled world of esports, by which groups of extremely expert youngsters battle for enormous prizes, private glory, and social infamy,” mentioned govt producer and Submarine co-founder Femke Wolting.

E-sports is an enormous trade and subculture, with extra viewers than skilled basketball. It’s an interesting tradition and high-stakes surroundings that lends itself to a dramatic and visually thrilling story. This collection matches properly inside Submarine’s mission to be on the forefront of tradition, and we’re enthusiastic about Nick’s imaginative and prescient for a visually thrilling collection with an exhilarating story.”

Earlier this week, The European Alliance, the commissioning collaboration between France Tv, ZDF & Rai, revealed it had boarded Submarine’s investigative journalism thriller collection The Kollective, which is written by Leonardo Fasoli (Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero) and and Maddalena Ravagli (Gomorrah).