FILM : 'EXIT WEST' : [BY OBAMAS]

 

'Exit West' to be made a film by the Obamas. Mohsin Hamid Novel in new projects list.

Los Angeles : Barrack and Michelle Obama's production company, on Friday announced six new projects in development for Netflix Inc, including a love story with a supernatural twist and a young adult thriller.

The former president and first lady's Higher Ground Productions will adapt British Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West into a film, according to a statement from Netflix.

The book tells the story of a young couple who find magical doors to transport to other places and land in the middle of a global refugee crisis.

According to The New York Times, the upcoming project will star the Pakistani-British star Riz Ahmed.

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 Nepalese-Indian 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 in a police investigation on her reservation.

The other series is a nature documentary about national parks.

Netflix said the projects will be released over the next few years but did not give exact release dates.

The Obamas signed a multiyear production deal with Netflix in 2018. Their earlier Netflix projects include American Factory, which won an Oscar in 2020 for Best Documentary. [Reuters]