
EXCLUSIVE: The Queen’s Gambit author Allan Scott has set his subsequent challenge, the crossover drama from Millionaire Matchmaker megastar Patti Stanger and Kissing Sales space manufacturer Andrew Cole-Bulgin.
The as-yet-untitled scripted challenge, which isn’t hooked up to a community but, will practice a tender courting skilled from a Jewish circle of relatives of matchmakers navigating her means thru Seventies New York Town and New Jersey, as she seeks to show her circle of relatives business into an empire.
In conjunction with Sam Barlow challenge Minsky, the sequence represents one of the most first main presentations for Scott since he wrapped on Netflix wreck The Queen’s Gambit.
The Anya Taylor-Pleasure-starring hit took Scott 30 years to get commissioned however was once one of the most streamer’s most-watched of 2020, a a success gamble taken by way of Netflix’s UK-based scripted boss Anne Mensah.
Scott, who was once BAFTA nominated for 1997’s Regeneration and is a former whisky govt, additionally exec produced The Queen’s Gambit and previous credit come with The Fourth Angel and In Love and Battle.
The drama will see Stanger, the exec and megastar of Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker, flip to scripted and manufacturer Cole-Bulgin’s fledgling outfit Tickled Crimson is generating.
Cole-Bulgin is the manufacturer at the back of any other a success Netflix sequence, YA drama The Kissing Sales space, and he used to paintings for Kissing Sales space indie Komixx as Leader Ingenious Officer earlier than leaving to arrange Tickled Crimson.
He mentioned Scott “ticks the entire containers.”
“Patti and I have been searching for a screenwriter that had labored effectively throughout display screen and level and understood the relevance of this multi generational tale,” he added.
Stanger mentioned: “It was once so necessary for us to discover a screenwriter that understood the private and emotional narrative of that younger Jewish woman navigating her means in existence from her teenage years in 70’s New Jersey to show her circle of relatives ability into an empire.”