Screenwriter Discusses Rush To Bring Prime Video's The Elevator Boys Movie to Life — Seriencamp
Going up… ideas for the upcoming movie with The Elevator Boys for Prime Video needed to come together fast. The film with the German social media stars turned boy band is now in production. Juliana Lima Dehne, who wrote the screenplay, told a Seriencamp crowd she had only days to turn around the original ideas for the story.
Lima Dehne was speaking at a session about European writers' rooms at the Seriencamp confab in Cologne, Germany, and gave the backstory.
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'When Amazon [and the producers] asked me to work on this and come up with ideas to pitch, because they had a deal with The Elevator Boys, I said okay, that's great. They said: We want at least five ideas, completely separate from each other, and because of the time, and because they are travelling the world, we need to present them next week.'
Lima Dehne, whose credits include hit German series Maxton Hall, said that given the tight turnaround, she quickly put together a mini writers' room to brainstorm ideas.
The as-yet-untitled movie will follow a fictional group played by the real-life German boy band, whose members are: Bene Schulz, Jacob Rott, Julien Brown, Luis Freitag, and Tim Schaecker.
'I brought in two writers whom I adore and I work really well with, and we were just viewing ideas for these five pitches so that The Elevator Boys, ultimately, could pick one to develop into a movie,' Lima Dehne explained.
The elevator pitch evidently worked. Cameras rolled on the pic in March with filming in Malta and elsewhere in Europe. W&B Television, the prolific German producer that is part of Leonine Studios is making the film, in association with Amazon MGM Studios Germany for Prime Video.
Prime Video is on a tear with younger-skewing drama. Add in the huge following The Elevator Boys have on social and hopes are high for their movie.
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