EXCLUSIVE: Sam Okun Productions has optioned Darkish Aspect of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich and the Area Race, a historic work from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Wayne Biddle, for growth as an ongoing one-hour drama sequence, Deadline has discovered.
Primarily based on true accounts, together with further supply materials from the e-book, the present follows a rebellious MIT graduate who shatters glass ceilings to affix NASA, the place, underneath the mentorship of Wernher von Braun, mastermind of America’s area program, she turns into a rising star. However whereas navigating the roiling sexual, social and political panorama of the ’60s and the Chilly Conflict, her dream turns into a nightmare when she uncovers Von Braun’s darkish previous.
The present is described as character-driven, with two intertwined timelines, falling tonally someplace between Classes in Chemistry and Oppenheimer.
Bosch‘s Daniel Pyne will function showrunner and exec alongside writer-producer Michael Esser, who introduced the venture to Sam Okun Productions after taking a stab at a function script based mostly on the supplies. Alive Leisure’s Philip von Alvensleben and Okun can even exec produce, with Sam Okun Productions VP Christian Jean serving as co-EP. German manufacturing firm Prodco ndF (neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft) is aboard a co-production accomplice.
We’re informed discussions are underway with an A-list director for Season 1, with the workforce quickly to start purchasing the package deal to broadcasters and streamers.
Mentioned Okun, “Very like what he did with BOSCH, Dan has a tremendous reward and sensibility for simplifying huge quantities of story element to inform an attractive and compelling character-driven story for the occasions; and with Michael’s in depth analysis and experience alongside together with his exceptional story telling talents, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON will make for one stand-out present of a present!”
Added Pyne, “It’s a robust and well timed story concerning the worth we so typically pay for progress. Who we’re, as people and as a rustic, is difficult, not black and white – outlined by the choices we make to succeed, or simply to outlive, and all these little lies we inform ourselves to justify what’s been achieved.”
Pyne is maybe greatest identified for serving as showrunner and govt producer on 4 seasons of Prime Video’s hit sequence Bosch. His function writing credit embrace The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears and Backstabbing for Newbies.
Sam Okun productions final produced Prisoner’s Daughter, the Catherine Hardwicke drama, starring Kate Beckinsale and Brian Cox, which was launched by Vertical after premiering at TIFF. Lately finishing publish on the ensemble drama All There Is, that includes Elsie Fisher, Mena Suvari, Cheyenne Jackson, Jason Priestley and extra, the corporate can also be readying the worldwide sequence Anatomy of a Rip-off, with Timothy Prager penning the difference and Daniel Calparsoro set to direct.
Pyne is represented by Nameless Content material and Rotham Brecher Ehrich Livingston; Okun by CAA, Latham & Watkins, and Skadden, Arps, Slate.