Co-Production on JG Ballard’s Super-Cannes, with Brandon Cronenberg writing and directing

Television drama production company, Ringside Studios, founded by award-winning British producer and former commissioner Gub Neal (The Fall, Queer as Folk) and French media company and distributor Newen, and Andy Starke from Anti-Worlds Film & Television have today announced that they have optioned the rights to co-produce JG Ballard’s 25th novel, the internationally renowned thriller Super-Cannes published in 2000, which will be adapted as a limited series for TV and be directed by acclaimed Canadian director and screenwriter Brandon Cronenberg. 

Super-Cannes is set in an ultra-modern high tech business park in the hills above Cannes, where a global elite has gathered to form a closed, uber-capitalist, and high-tech community. A place of luxury homes, private doctors, and private security, this enclave hides an underworld of crime, sexual perversion, madness and manipulation that is rapidly spiralling out of control. 

Gub Neal said: “We’re delighted to be involved with Brandon and Andy in adapting such an iconic piece of work. The source material is so rich and the characters so vivid that we are confident it will be an appealing project for both talent and buyers.”

 Brandon Cronenberg said: "Super-Cannes was an incredibly prescient novel that is more relevant now than ever — a heady blend of cutting politics and deviant psychology, built around a deeply satisfying detective story. I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to adapt it, and to be working on the series with Anti-Worlds and Ringside.”

 Andy Starke said: “Super-Cannes is one of my favourite novels - a thrilling story that holds a dark mirror to contemporary society and morality  - in the hands of Brandon Cronenberg it will be an incredible piece of television”

 JG Ballard is known as one of Britain’s greatest writers. He died in 2009 and his estate is represented by UK agency Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.

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