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“Gaslit”
Starz is drawing from the first season of the award-winning Slate podcast “Slow Burn” for its new Watergate drama. The historical series will dive into the Nixon administration and the players big and small surrounding the infamous political scandal. Co-created by Robbie Pickering and Sam Esmail (“Mr. Robot”), the series will follow key players in the events of 1972, including early whistleblower Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell; White House counsel John Dean; and G. Gordon Liddy, who led the break-in into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The project, cast by McCarthy/Abellera, has already brought on Julia Roberts and Sean Penn to star as Martha and John Mitchell. Production is scheduled to start in Los Angeles in April.
“True Spirit”
Jessica Watson, who at the age of 16 became the youngest person to attempt to sail solo nonstop around the world, will be the subject of an upcoming Netflix project. Based on Watson’s memoir of the same name, the film adaptation will chronicle the young adult’s travels as she battles harsh seas and isolation, and takes in the beauty of the open water. Denise Chamian is casting the project, which will be directed by Sarah Spillane and co-written by Spillane and Cathy Randall. Production is scheduled to start in Australia at the beginning of July.
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This story originally appeared in the March 4 issue of Backstage Magazine. Subscribe here.