Downton Producer Adapting Alex Gibney Doc as a Drama Series

LONDON: Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films is developing a new drama series with writer-producer Stephen Schiff (The Americans), producer Marc Shmuger and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.

The first season of the series, tentatively titled Stuxnet, will be based on Gibney’s documentary Zero Days, which Shmuger and Gibney produced for Participant Media. Zero Days is set in the world of true-life cyber warfare.

Carnival’s Nigel Marchant, David O’Donoghue and Gareth Neame will produce alongside Gibney (who is also attached to direct), Schiff and Shmuger. The show will be a Carnival production in association with Participant Media, distributed by NBCUniversal International Distribution. Participant Media will also executive produce.