Disney+ ‘Nautilus’ Casting Complete; Brazilian Legends Behind Football Doc; ITV Black Filmmaker Strand; Fremantle Cinecittà SpA Deal – Global Briefs
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Disney+’s ‘Nautilus’ Rounds Off Cast; Cameras Roll In Australia
Casting is complete and filming has kicked off in Australia on Disney+’s Nautilus, the live action re-telling of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Joining the previously announced Shazad Latif (The Pursuit of Love) in the lead role of Captain Nemo are Georgia Flood (Anzac Girls), who plays Humility Lucas, a privileged daughter of the British Empire who is taken hostage on board the Nautilus, and Thierry Frémont (Allied) as Gustave Benoit, a French engineer and architect of the submarine. The series, which started filming this week at Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland and is produced by Xavier Marchand’s Moonriver Studios and Anand Tucker’s Seven Stories, is one of the streamer’s most high profile to be made outside of the U.S., as it targets 60 international originals over the next two years. Other new cast members include Pacharo Mzembe, Arlo Green, Tyrone Ngatai, Ling Cooper Tang, Andrew Shaw, Ashan Kumar, Céline Menville and Kayden Price. The show has also drafted in a new Production Executive, Ian Hogan, after Julie Clark moved to ITV Studios.
Roberto Carlos and Juliano Belletti Behind Brazil 2002 Doc
Iconic South American footballers Roberto Carlos and Juliano Belletti are exec producing a film about the 2002 World Cup-winning Brazilian team, which has been picked up by Sky, Univision, Front Row Middle East and NENT Group. Brazil 2002: The Real Story uses six hours of unseen archive material shot by Belletti during the tournament, combined with interviews from many members of the winning team. The UK’s Collective Media Group, which was recently launched by former ViacomCBS International execs Claire McArdle and Rebecca Knight, is producing
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