Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefVincent Ngo, top screenwriter and Hollywood script doctor, has set up comedy series “Early Risers” in his native Vietnam.
Talent behemoth, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) represents the production company Early Risers Media Group and is handling licensing of the series’ distribution rights.The show, about the lives of American and European expats living and working in Saigon, is set to begin filming under the direction of Zach Merck at the end of this month.
After a prolonged period of COVID restrictions, “Early Risers” is believed to be the first international television production in Vietnam in over two years.
Local production is being run by Ace 1 Pictures.“Vincent has created a series that’s incredibly smart, funny and daring,” said executive producer Peter Toumasis. “It’s a contemporary comedy set against Saigon’s rarely seen expat community, which is full of lovable first-world rejects who had somehow fallen from grace and are trying to reclaim it in a country far from home.” The ensemble cast of “Early Risers” is a diverse group of Eastern and Western talent and includes C.S.
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