Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company on Friday announced six new projects in development for Netflix Inc.
Part of the six new projects includes a love story with a supernatural twist and a young adult thriller. According to a statement from Netflix, The former president and first lady’s Higher Ground Productions will adapt British-Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid’s novel “Exit West” into a film
The book tells the story of a young couple who find magical doors to transport them to other places and land in the middle of a global refugee crisis.
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Other film projects include a science-fiction movie called “Satellite,” which will be produced with T Street, a production company run by “Star Wars” director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman.
Another is “Tenzing,” the story of the Nepalese-Indian man who first reached the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand.
“The Young Wife” is a feature film that follows a woman on the day of her wedding who feels out of sync as a storm approaches.
The company also is developing two TV series. “Firekeeper’s Daughter” is a thriller based on a young adult novel by Angeline Boulley about an 18-year-old Ojibwe tribe member who reluctantly goes undercover in a police investigation on her reservation.
Netflix said the projects will be released over the next few years but did not give exact release dates.
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