Wagatha Christie, Vogue & Keanu Reeves-Voiced Docs On Disney+ UK Slate – Deadline

Disney+ has commissioned a doc on the sensational ‘Wagatha Christie’ authorized case, one other on style journal Vogue and a Keanu Reeves-voiced Method 1 collection as a part of its UK slate.

In whole, the streamer’s Director of Unscripted Content material, EMEA Sean Doyle has commissioned 5 unscripted collection, which can premiere on Disney+ in EMEA and Asia Pacific and Star+ in Latin America. Full particulars of the slate will be discovered beneath.

“Our purpose was to seek out good once-in-a-lifetime tales that showcase a variety of topics; and these newest tasks really ship on that promise,” stated Doyle. “We’re working with our elite inventive companions on this slate, reflecting the UK’s standing as an unscripted powerhouse and establishing Disney+ as a vacation spot for unscripted titles.”

Disney+ plans to create 60 native productions by 2024 because it seeks to up its international subscriber base.

Toplining right this moment’s orders, Wagatha Christie (working title) will recall the libel case that pitted Coleen Rooney in opposition to Rebekah Vardy, each of whom are married to main England soccer stars.

Informed via unique entry Rooney, who efficiently defended herself in opposition to a excessive profile defamation case that Vardy introduced in opposition to her associated to alleged leaking of tales to the tabloid press. Her notorious Instagram publish in October 2019, by which she outlined how she had performed a sting on Vardy by planting false tales on social media, had initially triggered the spat and earned her the moniker ‘Wagatha Christie.’

The three-part collection comes from Lorton Leisure, which beforehand made a doc about Coleen’s husband Wayne Rooney, is producing in affiliation with Dorothy Avenue Photos.

Additionally on the slate is Brawn: The One Pound Method 1 Workforce (working title), a four-part doc collection from All3Media-owned North One by which John Wick star Keanu Reeves tells the story of the impartial British Method 1 staff that value simply £1 ($1.20) however nonetheless gained the 2009 World Championship. It contains contributions from British F1 driver Jenson Button and staff proprietor Ross Brawn.

Reeves, who conducts the interviews and narrates, stated: “I’m honoured to be part of telling the unimaginable story of Brawn GP and their outstanding F1 Championship Season in 2009 with those that lived it on this four-part documentary collection. It has been nice to have the assist of Disney+ and producing partnership with North One to convey this story to life.”

Simon Hammerson is showrunner and producer, with Daryl Goodrich directing. Government Producers are Reeves, Disney+’s Doyle and Neil Duncanson.

In Vogue: The Nineties follows the within story of the eponymous style journal and the type of the period. Coming from Vogue Studios and Uncooked, it contains insights from Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Edward Enninful and influential figures from the 90s.

“The 90s was such an thrilling and vital decade for style. It was the interval when style entered the mainstream – when it grew to become inescapable, culturally related and stuffed with iconoclasm and expression and distinction,” stated Wintour. “The personalities had been bigger than life too. This collection will seize all of that and I’m thrilled it’s coming to Disney+.”

Liesel Evans and Sam Anthony are govt producers for Uncooked, with Sarah Amos, Mark Guiducci, and Helen Estabrook doing the identical for Vogue Studio guardian Condé Nast Leisure.

Camden is a four-part unique documentary collection, from Simon and Jonathan China’s Lightbox and Amy director Asif Kapadia. Day One Photos, the manufacturing firm co-founded by Amy Winehouse’s unique supervisor Nick Shymansky, Jasper Waller-Bridge and Ben Friedman, can also be connected.

The collection will have a look at how the North London space has acted because the launchpad to many of contemporary music’s most iconic stars, and the way some careers had been damaged by it.

Kapadia stated: “I’m a born and bred North Londoner and Camden has been a key a part of my life; I’ve had all types of experiences there: good, nice…and edgy. This collection celebrates an ever-evolving music scene in a singular place which has all the time been on the forefront of counterculture and has a musical legacy to match wherever on the earth. I’m delighted to be working with Lightbox and Day One and we’re massively excited that Disney+ has given us a worldwide platform for to inform this particular story.”

Kapadia is collection director, with Gaby Aung the producer. Government Producers are Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn and Suzanne Lavery, Shymansky, Waller-Bridge and Friedman.

Lastly, Discovering Michael is “an emotionally pushed” feature-length doc that follows British broadcaster and Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews on a journey to Everest to find his brother, who disappeared 23 years in the past aged 22 after turning into the youngest Briton to achieve the mountain’s summit.

Banijay-owned Shine TV is co-producing with with The Pure Studios, the three way partnership of Shine guardian Banijay and Bear Grylls. Government producers are Jon Swain and Tom Hutchings for Shine TV; Bear Grylls and Delbert Shoopman for The Pure Studios. Director is Tom Beard .