Soo Hugh, creator of the Apple TV+ hit “Pachinko,” will turn her attention to the last gasps of the Jazz Age.
Searchlight Pictures has enlisted Hugh to write and direct “Tender Is the Night,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel about married ex-pats, Nick and Nicole Diver, who are living on the French Riviera when they meet a young actress while on holiday. It was the novelist’s fourth and final completed work, and it has many of Fitzgerald’s trademarks — romantic entanglements, wealth, alcoholism and mental instability. Over the years, the book has been adapted into a stage play, a TV miniseries, a ballet and a 1962 movie with Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones.
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Hugh will produce the Searchlight feature film along with LuckyChap, Putnam Pictures and Margo Klewans’ Moonslinger Productions. Vice president Richard Ruiz will be overseeing the project for Searchlight Pictures, reporting to heads of production and development Katie Goodson-Thomas and DanTram Nguyen.
Hugh serves as showrunner, executive producer and writer on “Pachinko,” which was based on the international best-selling novel of the same name. Like the book, the series follows four generations of a Korean immigrant family. Season 1 of “Pachinko” received the Peabody Entertainment Award, a Critics’ Choice Television Award for best foreign language series, an Independent Spirit Award for best ensemble cast in a scripted series, a Gotham Award for breakthrough series — and was elected one of AFI’s TV Programs of the Year. The second season will premiere on Apple TV+ starting on Aug. 23. Up next, Hugh and her Moonslinger Productions banner will executive produce “The White Darkness” starring Tom Hiddleston. Previously, Hugh was the co-showrunner for AMC’s “The Terror” and created “The Whispers” for ABC. Other television credits include writing on “The Killing” (AMC) and “Under the Dome” (CBS).
Hugh is represented by WME, Entertainment 360 and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
