“The Deal,” the sprawling Gaumont show charting the 2015 behind-the-scene nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, won Series Mania‘s first annual Buyers Choice Award in part due to the timeliness of its geopolitical themes. Yet, Jean-Stephane Bron, the critically-acclaimed Swiss screenwriter and filmmaker of “Cleveland Against Wall Street,” started developing the six-part series more than six years ago.
Bron, who also produced the series with “Anatomy of a Fall” banner Les Films Pelleas and Gaumont and co-created it with French director Alice Winocour (“French Couture,” “Próxima”), told Variety ahead of Series Mania that he first pitched it in 2018 as part of a contest launched by Swiss broadcaster RTS
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