The director of crime dramas and thrillers like Animal Kingdom and The Rover is directing Starz's ballet drama, Flesh and Bone.
David Michôd is one of those directors who hits audiences with a wallop and leaves them curious for another round. After helming the Golden Globe and Oscar nominated Animal Kingdom, the wait for his upcoming dystopian Outback fantasy, The Rover with Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, can be interminable. But he has already signed on for more as the director of Starz’s gritty new ballet drama, Flesh and Bone.
Directing the first episode, Michôd promises an edge to the new Starz series that appears to be looking for a little blackness in its graceful swans.
Flesh and Bone was created by Emmy award-winning Breaking Bad writer and executive producer, Moira Walley-Beckett and follows a young ballet dancer with a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The dark and gritty series will unflinchingly explore the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world.
“I’m entirely enamored of the visual, visceral, artful way David tells story,” said creator Moira Walley-Beckett. “His style and sensibility is very much in alignment with my vision of my show.”
Of Michôd, Carmi Zlotnik, managing director of Starz says, “David is perhaps the most exciting filmmaker we’ve seen in quite some time. He is the kind of meticulous craftsman who has the eye to bring forth a character and create such a tension with the viewer that it is palpable. That is why we are so very excited he will be helping to establish the tone of Flesh and Bone. Moira is writing such complex characters set against the backdrop of a world of beauty and grace, and David has a superb ability to convey this equally thrilling and poignant story.”
Black Swan’s Sarah Hay has been cast in the lead role along with renowned dancers, including former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Irina Dvorovenko and current soloist Sascha Radetsky, and also Ballet Arizona company dancer Raychel Diane Weiner.
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