Uberto Pasolini, who produced The Full Monty and most recently directed The Return, is developing a TV series adaptation of Jonathan Swift's classic novel Gulliver's Travels. Variety reported that British writer William Ivory (We Want Sex, The Great Escaper) is writing the screenplay for the six-episode project, with Pasolini serving as showrunner.
The series is being produced by Italy's Roberto Sessa (The Sea Beyond) and Germany's Jan Wünschmann (The Swarm, Concordia), and will be unveiled to prospective broadcasters during the Series Mania festival in Lille.
"What Gulliver allows us to do today is to make something really, really fun," Pasolini said. "But at the same time--very much like Swift did in his time--to talk about the world around us; to talk about politics; to talk about greed; to talk about the place of the Western man in the world as a whole; to talk about the relationship between man and nature." Pasolini developed Hallmark's 1996 Gulliver's Travels series that won five Primetime Emmys.