Rosamund Pike Silicon Valley Drama From Scott Z. Burns, Scott Galloway & Media Res Lands Netflix Series Order
deadline.comNetflix is getting further into the tech world with Scott Z. Burns and Scott Galloway‘s Thumblite. After a bidding war, the streamer has landed Media Res‘ corporate thriller package starring Rosamund Pike with a straight-to-series order.
Created and written by Extrapolations creator Burns, who serves as showrunner, Thumblite is set in Silicon Valley and examines the schemes, rivalries, visions and obsessions of the power brokers and their underlings as they vie for control of the most powerful industry the world has ever known.
Burns, Galloway and Pike executive produce alongside Greg Jacobs as well as Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res.
Netflix beat a number of rivals to the package, but interestingly, we hear Apple TV+, home of two Media Res series, The Morning Show and Pachinko, did not engage due to the fact that Thumblite touches on the same world that its parent company primarily operates in, which would’ve created restrictions. (The streamer’s tech industry-themed offerings to date have been either genre, like sci-fi drama Severance, or limited, like WeCrashed.) That was likely a factor for Prime Video not vigorously pursuing the project.
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