Should you thought for a second that coronavirus wasn’t going to encourage a lot of associated leisure, assume once more. Netflix, naturally, works the quickest, and has already ordered Social Distance, an appropriately titled quarantine anthology sequence from Orange Is the New Blackcreator Jenji Kohan.
The present will, after all, be shot remotely, as TV manufacturing remains to be shut down. Writers won’t meet in particular person. Diego Velasco, who additionally labored on an episode Orange Is the New Black, will direct from his dwelling, and actors will movie themselves. No casting has been introduced but, however Kohan will function an govt producer, alongside Tara Herrmann, Hilary Weisman Graham, and Blake McCormick.
“Our job as storytellers is to replicate actuality, and on this new, weird, bewildering actuality we’re all experiencing, we really feel captivated with discovering connection as all of us stay at a distance,” the staff stated. “We have been impressed to create an anthology sequence that tells tales in regards to the present second we live by way of — the distinctive, private, deeply human tales that illustrate how we live aside, collectively.”
Kohan additionally govt produces Glow, and has one other Netflix present coming down the pipeline too: Teenage Bounty Hunters, which follows teenage twin sisters who associate with a veteran bounty hunter.
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