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 them to other places
and lands in the middle of a global refugee crisis.
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
The other series is a nature documentary about national
parks.
Netflix said the projects will be released across 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.
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