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Damien Chazelle set to helm new TV series The Eddy

03 May 2017

Words by Amy Bowker

A man with curly hair gesturing in a dark setting.
A man with curly hair gesturing in a dark setting.
The La La Land writer/​director is mak­ing a musi­cal dra­ma set in a Parisian nightclub.

It seems as though Damien Chazelle isn’t done with musi­cals just yet. After the mas­sive suc­cess of La La Land, it’s been announced that the 32-year-old direc­tor is attached to yet anoth­er intrigu­ing new project, a con­tem­po­rary musi­cal TV dra­ma intrigu­ing­ly titled The Eddy.

While La La Land was an ode to dreamy, can­dy-coloured Los Ange­les, The Eddy is to be set in mod­ern-day Paris and tell the sto­ry of a club, its own­er, its house band and ​“the volatile city that sur­rounds them”.

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Jack Thorne, who recent­ly penned the ​‘Har­ry Pot­ter and the Cursed Child’ stage play along­side JK Rowl­ing, is lined up to write the show, with Gram­my-win­ning song­writer Glen Bal­lard and Six Feet Under direc­tor Alan Poul attached as exec­u­tive producers.

Chazelle, who first gained trac­tion writ­ing and direct­ing Whiplash in 2014, became the youngest Best Direc­tor Oscar win­ner for La La Land last Feb­ru­ary, and is set to start work on The Eddy after his upcom­ing Neil Arm­strong biopic has fin­ished shooting.

Universal’s First Man stars La La Land lead­ing man Ryan Gosling, and is set to be released in 2018.

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