Michaela Coel Sets New HBO, BBC Drama Series ‘First Day on Earth’

Michaela Coel is ready to star in, write, and government produce a brand new drama collection that’s being co-produced by HBO and the BBC.

Titled “First Day on Earth,” the collection additionally boasts “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong amongst its government producers. Phil Clarke and Roberto Troni additionally government produce for Armstrong’s Numerous Artists Restricted, as does Jo McClellan for the BBC and Piers Wenger for A24. Filming on the collection will start in 2025.

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“I’m delighted to be working with VAL, HBO and the BBC once more, and to companion with A24; because of all of their mixed style, care and experience, I really feel our present is in nice arms,” Coel stated. “‘First Day on Earth’ is one other very private story for me which I hope will have interaction viewers from all around the world, and I can’t look forward to audiences to go on Henri’s journey together with her.”

The official logline for the collection states:

“British novelist Henri (Coel) is caught. Work has dried up, her relationship goes nowhere. So when she’s provided a job on a movie in Ghana, West Africa – her mother and father’ homeland, the place her estranged father lives – she will be able to’t resist the possibility to reconnect with him and the nation of her heritage. However when she arrives neither the job nor her father prove the best way she anticipated, and shortly Henri has to take care of hazard and hypocrisy, kind new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a brand new sense of id – one which may depart her stronger, however might additionally break her.”

Coel is finest identified for creating, starring in, and government producing the critically-acclaimed restricted collection “I Might Destroy You,” which additionally noticed her companion with the BBC, HBO, and Numerous Artists. That present aired in 2020 and shortly turned one of the vital celebrated exhibits of the yr. Coel gained the Emmy Award for excellent writing for a restricted collection, with the present additionally successful the Emmy for excellent music supervision out of its 9 whole nominations.

“Michaela’s phrases have the power to move the reader like no different,” stated Amy Gravitt, government vp of HBO & Max comedy programming. “I’m thrilled to have the chance to proceed the dialog that started with ‘I Might Destroy You,’ alongside our shut collaborators at VAL, A24 and the BBC. With Henri as our information, ‘First Day on Earth’ is as lyrical as it’s visceral in its excavation of the concept of house.”

This shall be Coel’s first writing credit score since “I Might Destroy You.” She beforehand created and starred within the E4 collection “Chewing Gum,” which aired two seasons between 2015 and 2017. As an actress, Coel has been in movies like “Black Panther: Wakanda Without end,” “Been So Lengthy,” and “Monsters: Darkish Continent.” Her tv credit embody “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “Black Earth Rising,” a number of episodes of “Black Mirror,” and “Prime Boy.” Coel will even star within the upcoming movie “Mom Mary,” which is being distributed by A24.

She is repped by UTA, Maison 2, and Granderson Des Rochers.

“We’re delighted and really feel extraordinarily fortunate that Michaela selected to carry her good new present to us, after the extraordinary expertise we had working collectively on ‘I Might Destroy You,’” Clarke and Troni stated. “But once more, Michaela delivers a extremely authentic, singular story that explores the connection between England and Ghana by way of a second era British-Ghanaian girl who takes up the chance to return to the homeland of her mother and father and finds herself encountering a solid of memorable characters and experiences that power her to face some painful house truths. However as ever with Michaela, it’s by turns surprising, humorous and unforgettable, and completed in her inimitable type.”

“Michaela is a type of distinctive skills whose work I’ve lengthy admired,” added Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama. “‘I Might Destroy You’ is without doubt one of the causes I wished to hitch the BBC! In ‘First Day on Earth,’ Michaela has created one other unmissable collection – really authentic, heartfelt, hilarious, poetic storytelling and informed in a manner that solely Michaela can. I can’t wait for everybody to see it.”

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