EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has discovered its subsequent younger grownup collection within the form of Geek Girl, a British ebook a couple of gawky teenager who’s plucked from obscurity to embark on a modeling profession.
The streamer will adapt Holly Smale’s collection of novels right into a 10-part collection, with the Canadian and British co-production set to start filming later this 12 months.
Here’s the logline: “Geek Girl tells the story of awkward, neurodiverse teenager Harriet Manners whose life is turned upside down when she is spotted to be a model and embarks on a life-affirming journey of self-discovery as she balances high school and high fashion.”
Waterside Studios, an IP and manufacturing enterprise from author and producer Jeff Norton, is behind the mission. It is collaborating with Nelvana, a youngsters’s content material distributor. Both are backed by Canada’s Corus Entertainment, which is able to present Geek Girl on its TV channels.
Geek Girl might be made by RubyRock Pictures, the UK drama firm based by Zoë Rocha, producer of Sky’s Chris O’Dowd comedy Moone Boy, and Canada’s Aircraft Pictures.
The Geek Girl novels are printed by HarperCollins and have been translated into greater than 30 languages. Netflix will stream the collection globally.
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