Creatives behind dramas It’s a Sin and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder have joined forces to launch an indie specialising in genre-based British IP.
Director Peter Hoar, executive producer Matthew Bouch and West End producer Jason Haigh-Ellery have unveiled Multitude Productions, which is working up a reboot of 1970s BBC sci-fi drama Blake’s 7 after striking a deal with the estate of its late creator, Terry Nation.
Hoar plans to direct the series, which is going out to buyers soon with an eye to securing a BBC commission with international co-production partners.
The director is best known for his collaborations with Russell T Davies, including Channel 4 AIDS drama It’s a Sin and the upcoming Tip Toe , plus ITV drama Nolly and episodes of Doctor Who.
He was also Emmy-nominated for an episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, worked on Netflix series Boots and The Umbrella Academy, and directed Jack Thorne’s upcoming C4 drama Falling.
Boucher’s CV, meanwhile, spans The Witcher, The Famous Five, Being Human and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
He told Deadline: “We’re driven by our passions but also seeing that there is a gap in the market in the UK – particularly with the well-publicized dropping off of Doctor Who – for genre-based British IP.
“We are looking to the international market and seeing if there is a way of dovetailing that British low-budget sensibility with international markets. We know in the U.S. there’s a big contraction and we all need to think about finding ways to make things more economical.”
Also on Multitude’s slate is a series based on Luke Rhinehart’s novel The Search for the Dice Man with writer Danny Wallace and director Tim Kirkby, plus Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek teen novels and Rikako Akiyoshi’s The Dark Maidens, a video game adaptation, and a sci-fi series in development for ITV.
The indie has also signed exec producer Lizzie Worsdell, whose credits include the 2022 independent British film The Carer.
