![]() ![]() ![]() In 1820 Boston, you grew up on the streets. “Children today are very protected, cushioned, know very little about the world until they finally grow up and discover a world very different from what they thought. The show reflects on modern-day parenting. “Why tell a story set in Boston 1820 right now in 2023?” Tellem asked. An overarching crime mystery threads the whole of a season. “The Young Poe” Season 1 is described by TMS as a six-part co-viewing detective thriller. It has to have the Gothic ambience of Poe’s stories, which you find in the episodes, but be amusing and playful,” Dorado said of the series’ direction.Įach novel adaptation, all inspired by Poe stories, will span two episodes. “You might say that this is a modern family in Boston 1820,” Tellem said.Ĭuca Canals, Ran Tellem and Jorge Dorado Credit: The Mediapro Studio/ Nacho Lopez In a young but tumultuous life, Poe not only finds order in analysis but in Dupin a father-figure he desperately yearns for and Dupin gets a family he never had in youth. “There’s a really, really beautiful plot where every step is really important and a detective story and, at the same time, you follow the story of the characters and what happens to them, which is such a powerful story.” “Here, they’re completely mixed together,” he added. “One of the beautiful features about Cuca Canals’ novels is that TV shows are many times one thing or another, either plot or character,” said Tellem. “The novels allow you little by little to discover one of the most important personalities in world culture,” she added, saying that the series “has to reflect Poe’s world, its psychological horror, but add humor since targeting family audiences.” Among his father’s many businesses, he owned a morgue,” Canals told Variety. ![]() ![]() He and his siblings were put into adoption but in different homes. Poe’s beautiful actress mother died when he was young, His father abandoned him. “So many things that we describe are based on real events. Shot in English, this demographic melting pot will allow the series to feature an international cast of actors and actresses of different nationalities in line with the style that The Mediapro Studio inaugurated in “The Head.”Ĭanals’ books also paint a comprehensible portrait of a young Poe, based largely on true events, beginning with first novel, “El misterio de la calle Morgue,” where Poe is still traumatized by the death of his mother a few years before, and is caught working in his step-father’s morgue, keeping a pet raven, and breaking down his life into a series of lists, analysis, superstitions and extreme attention to detail – the number of tears he cries, for instance – in what can be interpreted as an attempt to avoid further tragic misfortune. The series will be set in 1820s’ Boston, a time when the population of the city was mainly composed of emigrants from all walks of life and backgrounds. He ends up becoming a faithful assistant to Boston’s Inspector Auguste Dupin, a kindred soul. In the series, the young Poe sparks the interest of the local police through his precocious capacity to solve murder mysteries. With a bible, pilot script, director and novel saga base all in place, “The Young Poe” will be brought onto the market at Series Mania, which runs March 17-26. Screenplays are being written by Dominic Harari y Teresa Pelegri (“The Food Guide to Love,” “Unconscious”). Development on “The Young Poe” is headed by “Homeland” executive producer Ran Tellem, TMS international content development head, a role he also fulfilled on “The Head.” Dorado (“The Department of Time”), who directed Seasons 1 and 2 of “The Head,” will direct all six episodes of the first season of “The Young Poe.” ![]()
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