Talaria Media Expands Lineup With Female-Led Wrestling Drama

Talaria Media is bolstering its development pipeline with three new projects. Jamie Anderson, a rising screenwriter who has become a key creative for the company founded by Bobby Morgan, is involved in all three projects.

Anderson set to direct wrestling drama Arygoto Tokyo based on a screenplay by Mark Blutman, who won an Emmy for the Apple TV+ series Negro literary. According to the synopsis, Arygoto Tokyo The film follows “pro wrestling superstar Annie Able, who travels to Tokyo to reignite the intense feud that made her famous with her Japanese counterpart. As Annie’s physical and mental health deteriorates before the fight, she forms an unlikely and unbreakable bond with her opponent’s son, setting her on the road to recovery.” Talaria is producing the project.

Anderson is also behind Good eggwriting a script described as “a female empowerment story set in the mid-1800s” that “follows an emboldened pioneer who must fight for the respect and cooperation of her barbaric male colleagues as she aims to become the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.” It’s based on the true story of Elizabeth Blackwell, and in addition to Talaria, it counts SR-48’s Sean Robins as a producer.

On the television side, the single-camera comedy created by Anderson Frog Jump draws on the scribe’s relationship with his veteran father and also uses tales from Not sealedthe book by former Navy SEAL Mark Greene. The series “follows a retired Navy SEAL who struggles to adjust to civilian life and is forced to work at a New Age spiritual center with his estranged daughter.” Greene serves as technical consultant, and Morgan serves as executive producer.

“Our overall philosophy is to tell stories that are uplifting,” Talaria founder Bobby Morgan says of working with Anderson. “We wanted to focus on courage and resilience and, to some extent, add some humor to tough topics.”

The slate joins Sigma Forcea television series currently in development at Amazon starring Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. The company’s previous projects include Catherine Hardwicke’s feature film Prisoner’s Daughterstarring Brian Cox and Kate Beckinsale, the Emmy-nominated documentary The Great Debate with Charles Barkleyand sports doctor Save the Roarabout the 2012 Penn State football team.