Disney+’s ‘Wedding Season’: How A Truly Transatlantic Action Comedy Journeyed From Script To Screen

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Emily in Paris exec Lilly Burns has predicted more U.S. and UK production companies will co-produce together as she unearths how Jax Media and UK indie Dancing Ledge Productions came together to bring Disney+’s Wedding Season to screen.The genre-bending action comedy is the first UK Disney+ original to launch and rolls out on adult-skewing vertical Star today.Described by Burns as “Four Weddings and a Funeral meets Die Hard” and starring Canadian-American Alita: Battle Angel star Rosa Salazar and Irishman Gavin Drea (Vikings: Valhalla), Wedding Season is a rare co-production between a U.S.

producer, Jax, and Carey’s Fremantle-backed UK indieDancing Ledge, which he runs with Laurence Bowen.Jax worked with French production services outfit First Step on Netflix smash Emily in Paris and Burns said deep-pocketed streamer shows are “elevated” by having producers from different countries behind them.“Shows are becoming more and more global and streamers are looking for these content partnerships,” she told Deadline. “Every country does things differently and having a community of producers helps with the search for different audiences.

It was a really useful experiment to combine two companies that are completely successful in their own right.”The team behind Wedding Season wanted the show to be “100% international” and were complementary, added Burns.And rather than one company hiring the other, Carey stressed that the Wedding Season arrangement was rare in that they were equal partners.While Carey said the experience could have been “discombobulating,” the pair completely trusted each other and could lean on each other to find the best on and off-screen talent in their respective territories.“If you’re a U.S.