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Euro Gang Strikes Film & TV Deal With ‘Those About To Die’ Co-Director Marco Kreuzpaintner; Genre Slate Includes Charles Dickens Thriller & Possessed Pope Series


The slate includes a thriller exploring underground Victorian London and a series in which the Pope is possessed by Satan.

Alongside Euro Gang, Kreuzpaintner will produce and direct Drood, a series based on the book of the same name by U.S. author Dan Simmons ( The Terror). The story revolves around a sinister and mysterious hunt through Victorian London’s perilous underground for a murderous specter, led by none other than Charles Dickens, and his best friend and fellow author, Wilkie Collins. Kreuzpaintner will direct the pilot penned by Alex Child, where the Pope, possessed by Satan, seeks to undermine the Catholic Church from the inside, opposed by a renegade holy man with a complicated past.

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