Fremantle Re-Ups First Look Deal With Pablo Larrain’s Fabula

Scott Roxborough
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Fremantle has renewed its first-look deal with Fabula, the Chilean production company run by acclaimed director Pablo Larrain and brother Juan de Dios Larrain.

Fabula’s filmography includes Larrain’s Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman and the Oscar-nominated Jackie as well as Spencer and El Conde.

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The agreement will see Fremantle and Fabula continue to work together with Fremantle’s CEO, global drama, Christian Vesper and Seb Shorr, COO, global drama, to develop a slate of original films and TV dramas. Fremantle’s international sales wing, FMI, will handle distribution on all the small-screen projects.

Upcoming features produced under the Fabula-Fremantle deal, first inked in 2019, include Larrain’s Maria, a biopic of opera star Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie, produced together with Fremantle and Komplizen Film; and Sebabstián Lelio’s feminist protest musical The Wave, made in partnership with Participant Media.

On the TV side, Fabula has produced the Spanish-language thriller series La Jauría (The Pack), which went out on HBO Max in the U.S., and the upcoming Apple TV+ medical drama Midnight Family.

Vesper said the Larrains “encapsulate the bold and inventive filmmaking we proudly support at Fremantle.”

“It has been years of great collaboration and mutual growth on many levels,” Pablo and Juan de Dios Larrain said of their Fremantle deal. “Fremantle has given us many tools to understand the industry and how to move forward. They have been wonderful travel companions with fantastic taste. We are more than happy to go deeper into our partnership with them in the upcoming years.”

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