Jeremy Allen White as Kerry Von Erich in ‘The Iron Claw.’ Photo: A24.
Preview:
- Jeremy Allen White is attached to a new Netflix limited series.
- He’ll star in and produce ‘Enigma Variations.’
- The project adapts a book from ‘Call Me by Your Name’ writer André Aciman.
Because he clearly doesn’t have a busy enough schedule as it is, Jeremy Allen White is adding yet another project to his growing To Do list.
The actor, who appeared in ‘Shameless’ but has gone on to wide acclaim starring in FX series ‘The Bear,’ is now, per Variety, attached to a new limited series for Netflix called ‘Enigma Variations.’
It’ll draw from the eponymous André Aciman novel, which was published in 2017.
Aboard as main writer, showrunner and executive producer is Amanda Kate Shulman, who last worked on Prime Video’s fantasy series ‘The Wheel of Time.’
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Her past resume includes show such as ‘Berlin Station,’ ‘Tell Me Your Secrets,’ ‘The Blacklist,’ and ‘Chuck.’
Oliver Hermanus, meanwhile, will direct and also has a producer credit.
He’s known for writing and directing the movies ‘Shirley Adams,’ ‘Beauty,’ ‘The Endless River,’ and ‘Moffie.’
More recently, he directed the movie ‘Living’ starring Bill Nighy and handled multiple episodes of the Starz series ‘Mary & George.’
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What’s the story of ‘Enigma Variations’?
Male Actor in a Comedy Series, Jeremy Allen White, ‘The Bear’ 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Show, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA – 24 Feb 2024. Credit: Photo by Christopher Polk/Shutterstock for SAG.
Here’s your official logline for the book…
The novel 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.
Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later, we discover who we’ve always known we were…
What else has André Aciman written?
(L to R) Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in 2017’s ‘Call Me by Your Name.’
Aciman, an Italian-American writer born in Alexandria, Egypt. A distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he’s also had quite the career as a writer.
His novels also include ‘Eight White Nights,’ ‘Harvard Square’ and ‘Find Me,’ but the most famous in adaptation terms is 2007’s ‘Call Me by Your Name.’
That one was turned into a critically-acclaimed film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer with James Ivory writing and Luca Guadagnino directing.
The movie received four Oscar nominations upon its release, with Ivory winning for best adapted screenplay.
Where else have I seen Jeremy Allen White?
Jeremy Allen White in ‘The Bear.’ Photo: Courtesy of FX.
As mentioned, White these days is best known as –– and has received awards for –– driven chef Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto in cooking drama ‘The Bear.’
Before that, besides ‘Shameless,’, he was seen in ‘Homecoming’ and since he’s been in movies including ‘The Rental,’ ‘Fingernails’ and ‘The Iron Claw.’
More recently, he’s been filming the Bruce Springsteen pic ‘Deliver Me from Nowhere’ (as Springsteen) and ‘The Bear’s fourth season will be with us at some point this year.
And on top of all that, he also landed a voice role in Jon Favreau’s ‘Star Wars’ movie ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu,’ in which he’ll play Rotta the Hutt’
Created by Dave Filoni, he made his ‘Star Wars’ debut in the ‘Clone Wars’ movie, there voiced by David Acord.
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Nicknamed “Pedunkee Mufkin” (translated as Punky Muffin) by his father and also nicknamed “Stinky” by Ahsoka Tano, was a male Hutt and the son of Jabba the Hutt.
What’s Rotta’s story? During the Clone Wars, he was secretly kidnapped by the Confederacy of Independent Systems, which was orchestrated by Count Dooku with help from Ziro, Rotta’s great-uncle. The plot was meant to discredit the Jedi Order and scuttle negotiations between the Galactic Republic and the Hutts, but the Jedi were able to rescue him.
He was later kidnapped and rescued again. We do have to wonder what fate will befall him in the new movie, but the choice of White to provide his voice points to him being more of a grown character this time around.
White joins a cast that includes Pedro Pascal, who will be the titular Mando/Din Djarin, Sigourney Weaver (in a mystery role) and Johnny Coyne, who reprises his relatively small role of an Imperial warlord.
The movie is jetting on to screens on May 22nd next year.
When will ‘Enigma Variations’ be on Netflix?
Given White’s in demand schedule, we’d figure it’ll take a while for this to come together.
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere.’ Photo: 20th Century Studios.
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