I Could Destroy You creator, director and star Michaela Coel is reteaming with HBO and the BBC for her subsequent collection.
The 2 retailers will co-produce First Day on Earth, which Coel created and can star in as a British author named Henri who takes a job on a film filming in Ghana, her dad and mom’ homeland. Varied Artists Restricted, which counts Succession creator Jesse Armstrong amongst its principals (and which produced I Could Destroy You) and A24 are additionally behind the brand new collection.
“I’m delighted to be working with VAL, HBO and the BBC once more, and to associate with A24; due to all of their mixed style, care and experience, I really feel our present is in nice fingers,” Coel mentioned in an announcement. “First Day on Earth is one other very private story for me which I hope will have interaction viewers from all around the world, and I can’t anticipate audiences to go on Henri’s journey together with her.”
The outline of the collection reads: “British novelist Henri (Coel) is caught. Work has dried up, her relationship goes nowhere. So when she’s supplied a job on a movie in Ghana, West Africa — her dad and mom’ homeland, the place her estranged father lives — she will’t resist the prospect to reconnect with him and the nation of her heritage. However when she arrives, neither the job nor her father prove the way in which she anticipated, and shortly Henri has to cope with hazard and hypocrisy, kind new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a brand new sense of id — one that may depart her stronger, however may additionally break her.”
I Could Destroy You was one of the crucial critically acclaimed collection of 2020. Coel received an Emmy for greatest writing for a restricted collection and BAFTA TV honors for greatest miniseries, her lead position, writing and directing (shared with Sam Miller). First Day on Earth would be the first collection challenge from Coel since then.
“Michaela’s phrases have the flexibility to move the reader like no different. I’m thrilled to have the chance to proceed the dialog that started with I Could Destroy You, alongside our shut collaborators at VAL, A24 and the BBC,” mentioned Amy Gravitt, government vp comedy programming at HBO and Max. “With Henri as our information, First Day on Earth is as lyrical as it’s visceral in its excavation of the thought of house.”
Added Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama, “Michaela is a kind of distinctive abilities whose work I’ve lengthy admired. I Could Destroy You is without doubt one of the causes I needed to hitch the BBC! In First Day on Earth, Michaela has created one other unmissable collection — really authentic, heartfelt, hilarious, poetic storytelling and advised in a method that solely Michaela can. I can’t wait for everybody to see it.”
Coel is writing First Day on Earth and can government produce with Armstrong, Phil Clarke and Roberto Troni for Varied Artists Restricted, Jo McClellan for the BBC, and Piers Wenger for A24. Filming is ready for 2025.
We’re delighted and really feel extraordinarily fortunate that Michaela selected to convey her sensible new present to us, after the extraordinary expertise we had working collectively on I Could Destroy You,” mentioned Clarke and Troni. “But once more, Michaela delivers a extremely authentic, singular story that explores the connection between England and Ghana by way of a second technology British-Ghanaian lady who takes up the chance to return to the homeland of her dad and mom and finds herself encountering a forged of memorable characters and experiences that drive her to face some painful house truths. However as ever with Michaela, it’s by turns stunning, humorous and unforgettable, and carried out in her inimitable model.”
