Following his large spill in U.S. Cinema closing yr with A24’s absurdist Nicolas Cage comedy Dream State of affairs, Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli is connected to direct and EP the HBO building form identify, The Shards.
The Shards is in response to Bret Easton Ellis’ book of the similar identify, and is ready within the early 80s and tracks a bunch of privileged Los Angeles Top College pals as a serial killer moves around the town. There could also be a podcast which dropped in 2022.
In The Shards, Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior on the unique Buckley prep faculty when a untouched pupil arrives with a confidential time. Robert Mallory is dazzling, good-looking, charismatic, and shielding a undisclosed from Bret and his pals whilst he turns into part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled handiest through his an increasing number of unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer at the let go who appears to be drawing ever nearer to Bret and his pals, taunting them—and Bret specifically—with gruesome warnings and unpleasant, sharply native acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, however they’re additionally filtered during the creativeness of a young person whose items for establishing narrative from the filaments of his personal future are about to produce him one of the crucial explosive literary sensations of his moment. Can he agree with his pals—or his personal thoughts—to produce sense of the risk they seem like in? Thwarted through the arena and through his personal innate needs, buffeted through dangerous fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the connection between the Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably towards a strike.
Ellis serves as editor and EP. Emmy-winner Nick Corridor (The White Lotus), Brian Younger and Kathleen McCaffrey also are EPs.
Borgli additionally directed the film, Ill of Myself, which made its global premiere on the 2022 Cannes Movie Pageant. Borgli is repped through UTA and Granderson Des Rochers.
