Edgar Wright set to produce three genre shows for Netflix

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

SHAUN OF THE DEAD director Edgar Wright has a "straight-up psychological thriller" called LAST NIGHT IN SOHO coming our way next year, and now his newly formed production company Complete Fiction is working on three genre shows for the Netflix streaming service.

Headed up by Wright, ATTACK THE BLOCK director Joe Cornish, BABY DRIVER producer Nira Park, and producer Rachael Prior (who worked as a development executive on SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, ATTACK THE BLOCK, and THE WORLD'S END before earning an executive producer credit on BABY DRIVER), Complete Fiction is based in both Los Angeles and London, and will operate across film and television. With this company, Wright intends to produce projects "by new generations of writers and directors he wants to help nurture".

The three shows they have set up at Netflix are: 

– Lockwood & Co., "a supernatural action-adventure detective series" that will be directed and executive produced by Cornish. The series is based on novels written by Jonathan Stroud that 

follow three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.

– A sci-fi horror show based on author Tade Thompson's The Murders of Molly Southbourne.

For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another Molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction. Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she'll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks just like her?

– A historical fantasy series based on author S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy), which was inspired by Islamic folklore.

Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by — palm readings, zars, healings — are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.

In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for…

Anything Wright is involved with has my attention and I usually enjoy the projects he puts his name on, so the fact that Complete Fiction is expanding their production efforts is good news to me.