Today, Netflix has announced that Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander (“Hope”) has been enlisted to co-star alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Werwulf”) in the gestating modern love streaming series that hails from showrunner Amanda Kate Shuman (“The Wheel of Time,” “Carrie Soto is Back”), an adaptation of the André Aciman (“Call Me By Your Name”) novel “Enigma Variations.”
Another compelling element here is that the drama series will be helmed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermaus, who was behind character-driven features such as “History of Sound” and the Kazuo Ishiguro-penned “Living.”
An official synopsis for the original novel via Amazon:
“Charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire―not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well.”
The executive producing team, Michael Ellenberg, Christina Malach, and Lindsey Springer, for Media Res, alongside Shuman, Hermanus, Aciman, and Monica Levinson. If you weren’t already aware, Media Res has been behind recent TV projects such as “The Morning Show,” “Pachinko,” and “The Miniature Wife.”
We’ll be curious to see who else lands parts in “Enigma Variations,” as the one-two punch of ATJ and Vikander is certainly going to make the series one to keep an eye on, given everyone involved.
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