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Netflix Secures Multiyear Overall Deal With Director Jaume Collet-Serra

The pact underscores Netflix’s push to tie up top directorial talent under rare feature film agreements

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Overview

  • Jaume Collet-Serra has signed an exclusive multi-year overall deal with Netflix to direct and produce both feature films and series.
  • The first collaboration, An Innocent Girl is a psychological thriller about a young woman ensnared by a powerful Washington D.C. couple and will be produced alongside Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter.
  • The agreement also secures Collet-Serra’s upcoming reimagining of the action classic Cliffhanger starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan.
  • He is working on the survival thriller Play Dead, described as Don’t Breathe meets 1917, which bolsters his expanding Netflix slate.
  • The deal follows the blockbuster success of Carry-On, which amassed 185 million views to become Netflix’s second most-watched film ever and cements Collet-Serra among a select group of filmmakers with Netflix overall deals.