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‘Queen Cleopatra’ Helmer Tina Gharavi Tapped to Co-Direct Iranian Royal Family Drama Series ‘The Shah, The Spy, The Madman’
Tina Gharavi will co-direct Iranian royal family drama ‘The Shah, The Spy, The Madman’ alongside series creator Shahriar William Raee.
The first season will focus on the U.S.’s covert plot to overthrow Pahlavi in the early 1950s as operatives oust his Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and install a pliable young King in order to thwart the Soviet Union. As Variety exclusively revealed in May, a drama series titled “The Last Shah” is in development at Random Access Media, created by Morrie Rosmarin, while Pahlavi’s third wife, Empress Farah, recently inked a deal with Serendipity Group and John Powers Middleton for her life rights, with a documentary and scripted project in the works. The race to get Pahlavi’s story to the screen has been turbocharged by recent geopolitical events, including destabilization in the Middle East and the unexpected death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month.
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