EXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in improvement Daylight, a one-hour thriller drama primarily based on Marion Pauw’s bestselling Dutch novel Daglicht, from author Denise Hahn (Untitled Jason Katims Venture) and Blue Ant Studios. Pauw will function an govt producer on the challenge.
Written by Hahn, Daylight is a household drama and compulsive thriller that follows Iris, a high-powered Korean American lawyer, who makes the stunning discovery {that a} native convicted assassin is her estranged brother. When she learns the prisoner shares the identical developmental incapacity as her son, she will get pulled into the case and finally ends up exposing an internet of corruption and stunning household secrets and techniques that lead her to a fact she by no means anticipated. Daylight dives into discussing the stigma of disabilities, bias within the legal justice system and the parable of the mannequin minority — all by the lens of the Asian American expertise.
Hahn govt produces with Laura Michalchyshyn and Eva Miller for Blue Ant Studios, Sofia Sondervan-Bild, Janet Grillo and Pauw. Fox Leisure is the studio.
Pauw’s e-book Daglicht was launched within the U.S. by Random Home in 2017 below the title Lady In The Darkish.
Hahn is a co-executive producer on Jason Katims upcoming untitled comedy drama sequence about dwelling on the autism spectrum at Amazon. She most lately served as supervising producer on ABC’s The Repair. Her different earlier credit embody producer on Rise, co-producer on Pure Genius and author on CSI: Cyber, Reckless and Gray’s Anatomy.
She’s repped by Writ Giant and Gregg Gellman at Morris Yorn.