Talaria Media Ramps Up Slate with Female-Led Wrestling Feature, Navy SEAL Comedy

Talaria Media is beefing up its growth pipeline with three new initiatives. Rising scribe Jamie Anderson, who has change into a go-to artistic for the Bobby Morgan-founded firm, is concerned in all three initiatives.

Anderson is connected to direct the wrestling drama Arigato Tokyo from a script by Mark Blutman, who received an Emmy for the Apple TV+ present Ghostwriter. In keeping with the logline, Arigato Tokyo follows “aging wrestling superstar Annie Able, who travels to Tokyo to reignite the intense feud that made her and her Japanese counterpart famous. As Annie’s physical and mental health spiral before the fight, she forms an unlikely, unbreakable bond with her opponent’s son, setting her on a path to recovery.” Talaria is producing the undertaking.

Anderson can be behind Good Egg, writing a script described as “a female empowerment story set in the mid-1800s” that “follows an emboldened trailblazer who must fight for the respect and cooperation of her barbaric, male colleagues as she aims to become the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.” It’s based mostly on the true story of Elizabeth Blackwell, and along with Talaria, it counts Sean Robins of SR-48 as producer.

On the TV aspect, the Anderson-created single-camera comedy Leapfrog takes inspiration from the scribe’s relationship with her veteran father, and in addition makes use of tales from Unsealed, the ebook by former Navy SEAL Mark Greene. The sequence “follows a retired Navy SEAL as he struggles to adjust to civilian life, and is forced to work at a new-age spiritual center with his estranged daughter.” Greene serves as a technical marketing consultant, with Morgan govt producing.

“We have a general philosophy of telling stories that are uplifting,” says Talaria founder Bobby Morgan of teaming with Anderson. “We wanted to focus on grit and resilience, and to some degree, add a little bit of humor to tough topics.”

The slate joins Sigma Power, a TV present in growth at Amazon with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Manner. The corporate’s earlier initiatives embody the Catherine Hardwicke characteristic Prisoner’s Daughter, starring Brian Cox and Kate Beckinsale, the Emmy-nominated doc The Nice Debate with Charles Barkley, and sports activities doc Saving the Roar, in regards to the 2012 Penn State Soccer workforce.