EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning producer Cathy Schulman (The Idea of You, Crash) and her Welle Entertainment banner are teaming with Netflix to develop a feature adaptation of the bestselling novel The Favorites by Layne Fargo.
Kate Gersten, the writer of Gia Coppola’s lauded drama The Last Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson, is penning the script. Schulman is producing for Welle Entertainment, with the company’s Kate Roughan exec producing.
Less than a month after the world was mesmerized by Olympic ice dancing — by real-life couple Madison Chock and Evan Bates, as well as American gold medalist Alysa Liu — The Favorites enters the same emotionally charged world of elite figure skating.
Drawing inspiration from Wuthering Heights, the story follows the rise and fall of ice dancers Katarina Shaw and Heath Rocha, chronicling the pair’s decade-long professional and personal history as they navigate the price of ambition, the complexity
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