DIRECTOR JILL SOLOWAY CREATES TV SHOW BASED ON CHRIS KRAUS’S I LOVE DICK
Director Jill Soloway, known for creating the TV show Transparent, is allegedly directing a pilot for a new TV show called I Love Dick, according to Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, who reports that the show is set in an academic community in Marfa.
The series will be based on Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel of the same title—a novel hailed by The Guardian as “the most important book about men and women written in the last century.”
Kraus’s book famously laid out a nonlinear, highly personal narrative about a married filmmaker who involves her husband in correspondence about her growing obsession with a theorist identified only in the book as “Dick” (who is widely recognized as Dick Hebdige).
Amazon has ordered the pilot. The show will be produced by Soloway and Andrea Sperling’s new company, Topple Productions, and is being written by playwright Sarah Gubbins.
Kraus’s archives were recently acquired by NYU’s Fales Library, as artforum.com reported here.
