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EXCLUSIVE: A sister company to The Incal Universe owner Humanoids named Sparkling has launched to create European drama, with Patrick Nebout at the helm, Deadline can reveal.
Cannes Confidential and Midnight Sun producer and European co-production specialist Nebout is exiting Beta-owned producer Dramacorp to lead the Paris-based producer as President and Chief Content Officer.
Sparkling will sit adjacent to LA-based Humanoids, which is the owner of science fiction comic book franchise The Incal, created by writer and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and French artist Mœbius in the 1980s. It will focus on original European drama projects and series and financing, producing and co-producing series and movies based on the Humanoids catalogue.
“We’ll be identifying and adapting the most unique and scalable IP from Humanoids’ vast catalogue of iconic graphic novels but we’ll also develop and produce original series and movies,” Nebout told Deadline. “All will be premium projects, resonating across several territories in Europe and beyond.”
He added the focus will be on set-ups where the company retains rights, and noted incoming European and national content quotas would aid pre-sales models and the quest for commissions.
Sparkling will house Nordic subsidiary Skyverse, which earlier this month went into production on Acorn TV, TF1 and Viaplay drama Cannes Confidential and is also working on cold war dramedy mini-series Whiskey on the Rocks, based on Swedish author Jonas Jonasson’s story and adapted by Henrik Jansson-Schweizer (Thicker Than Water). Sparkling is also working on We Are Zombies, which is based on Jerry Frissen and Guy Davis’ cult Humanoids comic book series The Zombies That Ate the World.
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Ahead of its world premiere in Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, the Davy Chou directed and written feature All the People I’ll Never Be has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics.
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