Noah Baumbach who develops Andrew Ridker’s novel hopes for a series with A24

AS Noah BaumbachThe latest movie Jay Kelly It waves at the Venice Film Festival, it seems that the director is returning to television for the first time in more than a decade. Baumbach is collaborating with A24 to adapt Andrew Ridker’s acclaimed novel Hope in a series.

This is not the first time that Baumbach has collaborated with A24 while distributing his 2014 film While we are youngwho recited Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam DriverAND Amanda Seyfried.

Hope It is set for a year in 2013, “tells the story of the Greenspans, who are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, a idyllic and idealist suburb to the west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful doctor with his cardiological practice.

“His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community who spends his free time to help reset the refugees. Their daughter, Mayan, works in a distinct publishing house in New York and their son, Gideon, is preparing to follow in his father’s footsteps. They are an exceptional family from an exceptional place, who live in exceptional times.

“But when Scott is surprised to falsify blood samples at work, he sets in motion a series of scandals that threaten to break his family. Deb leaves him for a female power broker; Maya rekindles a dangerous relationship from his young girl

Baumbach has a long history of exploration of complex family dynamics in films such as The squid and the whale, Marriage storyAND White noisemaking it perfect for the acute and stratified novel by Ridker.

But his return to television is particularly interesting, considering that his last attempt came in 2012 with the HBO pilot for Correctionsan adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s book. In the end that project did not go on.

In 2015, he reflected on the experience, saying: “I left it with a true appreciation for what television and what is distinctly film is distinctly. Sometimes it is confused because we are talking about how we are in a gold era of TV and TV is where more interesting things are happening.

“But I think that what is lost as it is sometimes that it is truly a different means. For me, the challenge of watching something for a long period of time, which was in progress and has not finished, in which you are just re -thereal the story for each episode.”

I am sure that Baumbach will develop a solid family dramatic series.

Source: deadline