EXCLUSIVE: Young Sherlock producer Motive Pictures is developing two new projects with Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, while bolstering its development team to manage a growing slate of dramas.
Motive previously collaborated with James on his first TV project, Get Millie Black, for Channel 4 in the UK and HBO in the U.S. Now James, who won the Booker Prize for ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’, has a brace of new projects with Motive. We hear one is called Marauders and is being billed as a blood-soaked odyssey into the lawless Caribbean, set during the Golden Age of piracy. The project is in development with an as-yet-unnamed broadcaster. The second work in progress is The School, a revenge epic and geopolitical thriller that plays out across the Americas.
“We pride ourselves on keeping very close relationships with the writers that we work with, and continuing to make
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