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Nine Letters

Series - Period Drama, Anthology | Hollywood | 12x50' | English

Optioned by Sphere Content (www.spherecontents.com)

Nine Letters

Series - Period Drama, Anthology | Hollywood | 12x50' | English

Optioned by Sphere Content (www.spherecontents.com)

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Synopsis

Nine Letter is a miniseries of 12 episodes, one hour each.
It is an anthology that takes in a hundred years of the Hollywood Sign’s history and the events surrounding each of its 9 letters.
It is a historical drama based on real characters and events.
In two years’ time, on 8 December 2023, the Hollywood Sign will celebrate its 100th birthday, an occasion sure to be marked with much fanfare.

In 1978, to mark the 75th anniversary of Hollywood’s incorporation as a city, the original sign was replaced by a new one. The unveiling, for which the sign was surrounded by a mass of searchlights  flooding the sky above with beams of light, brought in a television audience of 60 million in the United States alone.

In short, ours is no ordinary protagonist. This is the story of 9 letters in sheet metal that form a sign 13 meters high, 106 meters long – 9 letters that spell out ‘Hollywood’.
A meditation on adaptation and reinvention.

The copyright for the Hollywood Sign, or more specifically the ‘Hollywood Stylized Mark’, belongs to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
NINE LETTERS has obtained permission for worldwide use of the Mark in this TV series from Global Icons.

Reference

The Crown

Z, The man with the thin moustache

Series / dramedy, biopic, period thriller, social Issues, Argentina /12x45´/ Spanish-English

The truth can be stranger than fiction

Z, The man with the thin moustache

Series / dramedy, biopic, period thriller, social Issues, Argentina /12x45´/ Spanish-English

The truth can be stranger than fiction

Logline

What happens when an honourable man confronts the power of a tabloid magnate? Who will prevail when a famous actor, acclaimed for his portrayal of a righteous masked crusader, comes up against a media mogul bent on using fake news to destroy the actor’s reputation and save publishing house from the brink of bankruptcy in the process?

An actor relies on the press for his success.
The media mogul needs the actor to sell newspapers.
Then one day, this delicate equilibrium is shattered…

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Synopsis

A 47-year-old actor in Los Angeles learns by chance that he is idolised in a distant country for the role of a masked crusader he played 15 years ago, in a show that was cancelled after two seasons.

He decides to drop everything and head for this new country, Argentina, where the press elevate him to the level of hero and celebrity, and he enjoys the adulation of millions of people. In Argentina, the people adopt him as one of their own, because his fictional hero is just the man they need to confront the murky political reality of a country experiencing yet another military dictatorship, with thousands of people being disappeared.

Taking advantage of this newfound success and the accompanying celebrity, the actor begins appearing as his character, Zorro, in countless prime-time TV shows. And he starts planning his definitive comeback, writing a film that will catapult him back to fame. But to make his dream a reality he must first confront the whims of the local producers in whose hands the film’s fate lies.

With the transition from military dictatorship to democracy, and the awarding of the 78 World Cup to Argentina, the public appetite for a masked crusader fighting for the rights of the voiceless wanes, and the invites to appear on popular talk shows dry up. On the other hand, he finally reaches an agreement with one of the most powerful TV channels in Argentina. They agree to make his film if, in exchange, he will perform in character every day at the Royal Madrid Circus in a resort on the Atlantic coast, far from the capital.

Unfortunately, the military dictatorship clamps down on the TV channel and the financing for his film vanishes into thin ar. This comes just at the moment when the director of the largest tabloid publishing group in the country, on the verge of bankruptcy, decides to change his approach. In a cruel plot, the publisher that once put him on a pedestal now decides to engage its readership, many of whom are fans of the actor, by using fake news to discredit the one thing that Zorro, Diego de la Vega and Guy Williams all shared: their code of honour…

Reference

(2020), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), Steve Jobs (2015), Judy (2019), The Crown (2016-)

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