Peacock has begun casting for The Resort, a true-crime love story from Palm Springs writer Andy Siara, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and UCP. Luis Gerardo Méndez (Narcos: Mexico, Murder Mystery), Nina Bloomgarden (Hot Pink, Jane) and Gabriela Cartol (La Camarista, Hernán) are set as series regulars, and Debby Ryan (Insa…
True-crime love story The Resort, from Palm Springs writer Andy Siara and Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, has been ordered at Peacock.
The streamer has handed the series from UCP an eight-part order.
It first emerged in February 2020 that the pair were developing the scripted project at the Universal Studio Group…
EXCLUSIVE: Palm Springs arrived with a bang at January’s Sundance Film Festival, when the romantic comedy with an existential twist (and turns) was acquired for a fest-record $17.5 million. Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti star in the pic, which Max Barbakow directed from a screenplay by Andy Siara.
Barbakow and Siera…
UCP is developing dark comedy series The Resort from Andy Siara, writer of Sundance breakoutPalm Springs, and Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp, which is under a deal with UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios. Anonymous Content is producing. The series will be shopped to premium and streaming platforms.
The…
In the Sundance film Palm Springs, Andy Samberg plays the carefree Nyles, who meets Cristin Milioti’s Sarah, a reluctant maid of honor who is in Palm Springs for a wedding. Trapped at this venue, they begin to go on a journey of getting to know each other and themselves. According to screenwriter Andy Siara, it was…