Aaron Taylor-Johnson (28 Years Later, Nosferatu) is ready to headline in Enigma Variations, a restricted collection greenlighted by Netflix primarily based on Call Me By Your Name writer André Aciman’s bestselling novel. In the venture, from tv studio Media Res, he succeeds Jeremy Allen White who was originally attached to star.
Written by Amanda Kate Shuman (The Wheel of Time) and to be directed by Oliver Hermanus (The History of Sound), Enigma Variations stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Paul, a person remade by the lovers who ignite and undo him throughout ten transformative years. It’s an intimate but sweeping portrait of masculinity, sexuality, and trendy love—and in a world of limitless selections, it asks the query: will we all know once we’ve discovered the one?
Like within the e book, Paul is sexually fluid as he alternates between a male and a feminine companion.
Shuman, who serves as showrunner, govt produces alongside Hermanus in addition to Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res, Aciman and Monica Levinson (Love Story: JFK Jr. And Carolyn Bessette). Media Res is the studio.
Enigma Variations was set up at Netflix more than a year ago in a aggressive scenario with White hooked up to star and govt produce. He left the venture on the finish of 2025. A casting seek for a alternative was launched, with Taylor-Johnson coming into negations quickly thereafter.
This marks the American collection debut for English actor Taylor-Johnson who has a number of films developing, Werwulf, Blood On Snow and Cry To Heaven. He is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, WME and Sloan Offer Weber & Dern. Shuman is repped by UTA and HJTH. Levinson is repped by CAA.
Media Res has developing Season 5 of The Morning Show for Apple TV; The Miniature Wife, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen, for Peacock; The Dealer, starring Jessica Chastain and Adam Driver, for Apple TV; The Chain for HBO; and drama pilot Durango for Hulu.
