TVLine Items: Jeremy Allen White's Bisexual Netflix Drama, The Empress Sets Final Season and More
The Emmy Award-winning Bear actor is attached to star in and executive-produce the adaptation of André Aciman's novel, our sister site Variety reports. The project, which is currently only in the development stage, will be written and showrun by Amanda Kate Shuman (The Wheel of Time, Berlin Station).
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Aciman also wrote the novel Call Me by Your Name, which was adapted into the 2017 movie starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
The official book description for Enigma Variations follows:
'Enigma Variations 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.'
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* The German historical drama The Empress, starring Devrim Lingnau as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, will return for a third and final season on Netflix, the streamer announced.
* MGM+'s forthcoming Robin Hood series has cast Australian newcomer Jack Patten in the title role, our sister site Deadline reports.
* Yellowstone to Yosemite With Kevin Costner, a three-part docuseries sequel to Yellowstone: One-Fifty, will premiere Saturday, Feb. 8 on FOX Nation.
* Foul Play With Anthony Davis, 'a docu-style unscripted comedy that gives some of the greatest athletes in the world one shot to score a great prank, or foul out trying,' will premiere immediately following the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Feb. 16 on TBS.
* Netflix has released a trailer for the true-crime docuseries American Murder: Gabby Petito, premiering Monday, Feb. 17:
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