Jeremy Allen White is heading to Netflix as star and executive producer of Enigma Variations, a limited series adaptation of the André Aciman novel, which is in early development, Deadline has learned.
According to the official synopsis, “Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men – whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later, we discover who we’ve always known we were.”
White will portray the role of Paul, we hear.
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Media Res is producing the series. Amanda Kate Shulman is set to serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Oliver Hermanus will direct and executive produce. Aciman will executive produce along with White.
Deadline’s sister pub Variety was first to report the news.
Reps for Netflix declined comment.
Acimon previously wrote the novel Call Me By Your Name, which was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
White has won two Emmys and three Golden Globes for his starring role as Carmy on FX’s The Bear.
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