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Netflix Announces Limited Series "Enigma Variations" Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson
From television studio Media Res, the series is based on André Aciman's Bestselling Novel with Amanda Kate Shuman set to Showrun and Oliver Hermanus to Direct
Grab your passports, we're going on a globe-trotting tour of passion and romance.
If you enjoyed the sweaty, poignant, and lust-filled world of Call Me by Your Name, this one's for you. Another of André Aciman's bestselling books is being adapted for the screen - and it's just as full of yearning as its predecessor.
Enigma Variations will star Aaron Taylor-Johnson (28 Years Later, Nosferatu, Nocturnal Animals) and tells the story of a man remade by the lovers who ignite and undo him over the course of ten transformative years. It's an intimate yet sweeping portrait of masculinity, sexuality, and modern love - and in a world of endless choices, it asks the question: will we know when we've found the one?
From studio Media Res (The Morning Show, Pachinko and the upcoming The Miniature Wife) the limited series will be executive produced and written by A.K. Shuman (The Wheel of Time, Carrie Soto Is Back), and directed by Oliver Hermanus (The History of Sound, Living). Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer also executive produce for Media Res, as well as André Aciman and Monica Levinson.
Aciman's book was hailed a "magnificent, living thing" by The New York Times Book Review's Paul Lisicky. "Aciman writes arousal so beautifully you miss it when it's gone," Lisicky noted. Added The Boston Globe's Michael Upchurch, "Is there any writer out there who can conjure the seismic swings and loop-the-loop giddiness of sexual infatuation the way that André Aciman can?"
The book, which spans Italy, New York, and New England, joins a stacked shelf of Aciman's novels, including Find Me and Room on the Sea.
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