Steve McQueen seems to have found a new home on the small screen. Certainly he's geared his upcoming projects towards TV series rather than feature films, which may suck for those of us who love the 12 Years a Slave and Shame director's movies. He's working with HBO on the six-episode series Codes of Conduct, which he will direct completely, and now he's got another series developing with the BBC.
McQueen will direct and co-write with Debbie Tucker Green a new BBC series centering on the lives of black British friends living in West London. The series, of which a search is on to find writers for the scripts, will begin in the 1960s and go all the way through to present day. Production is being eyed to begin in the spring of 2016.
Meanwhile, McQueen's next film, which we previously learned would be an adaptation of Brit miniseries, Widows, has just landed a co-writer in Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn. Talk about a powerhouse combo! The film is basically a heist thriller about the wives of armed robbers who aim to finish the job their husbands died attempting. Add this to Flynn's growing presence in Hollywood. Not only is an adaptation of her book Dark Places on the way with Charlize Theron in the lead role, but Flynn is reteaming with David Fincher on the HBO series, Utopia. [Deadline/ScreenDaily]
