‘The OA’ Creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij to Develop Film and TV Projects at Sister
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Writer/directors Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who were behind the recent critically acclaimed FX limited series “A Murder At the End of the World,” have struck a deal with indie production shingle Sister to develop, write and produce original film and television projects.
The deal, described as a “multi-year creative partnership,” reunites Marling and Batmanglij with Cindy Holland, the global CEO of Sister.
Holland was vice president of original content for Netflix when she developed “The OA,” which was the first TV project from Marling (who also starred) and Batmanglij. “We’re excited to build new worlds in film and TV with the incredible team at Sister,” Marling said in a statement. “Cindy Holland has been behind some of the most radical narrative leaps in the business, which we witnessed firsthand at Netflix.
With the arrival of algorithmic storytelling — both in the programming directives and the authorship of the stories themselves — it’s more important than ever for outside the box thinkers to band together and make innovative, original works that look forward rather than backwards.
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