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Rewatch Gilmore Girls from the beginning now, because when the Obamas finish developing their new line of Netflix projects, you’ll have new end-to-end content to watch. On Friday, producer Barack and Michelle’s Higher Ground announced the list of films and shows they are working on for the platform, including a 2017 film adaptation of author Mohsin Hamid West exit, who follows a couple who, together with other refugees, manage to transport themselves to other parts of the world through supernatural portals; Riz Ahmed will star in addition to executive producer, while Yann Demange will direct.
Other prominent Higher Ground projects include Tenzing, a biographical film about Tenzing Norgay, the sherpa who first surpassed Everest with Edmund Hillary, by director Jennifer Peedom and Lion writer Luke Davies, based on the 2003 Ed Douglas book Tenzing: hero of Everest, in addition to the sci-fi image Satellite by writer Ola Shokunbi and director Tayarisha Poe The young wife, which “follows Celestina, 29, on her first wedding day. Or not a wedding, exactly, but a party. A party where there is movement and Celestina is out of sync. The guests invade; a storm is approaching. “
On the television side, the Obamas bring you Firefighter’s Daughter, a YA thriller based on author Angeline Boulley’s upcoming debut novel about an “18-year-old native girl as she reluctantly disguises herself in a police investigation on her Ojibwe reservation”, with Mickey Fisher and Wenonah Wilms set to co-write and Fisher for showrun. And for everyone who is desperate to see something other than the walls of their own homes, they have Great National Parks, “Natural history documentation that will explore some of the most wonderful national parks and wilderness spaces on Earth,” by Wild Space Productions and Blue Planet II filmmaker James Honeyborne.
The projects join the previously announced Higher ground shows Ada Twist, Scientist, an animated STEM program for preschoolers based on the book series by Andrea Beaty and illustrator David Roberts, as well as The G Word with Adam Conover, a hybrid comedy about government dysfunction based on the 2019 Michael Lewis book Fifth risk: Undoing democracy.