Envision Entertainment Sets Turbulence Anthology Adaptation

Envision Entertainment is adapting David Szalay’s novel Turbulence into an anthology series, with Leonardo Fasoli and Maddelana Ravagli (Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero) tapped as showrunners.

The novel features interconnected short stories that follow 12 international protagonists as they fly from country to country and experience emotional turmoil from bereavement, sickness, divorce, violence and loneliness.

In the adaptation, each episode will start and end in London and center on interlinking characters as they journey across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Building on Fasoli and Ravagli’s ZeroZeroZero, which was filmed in English, Spanish and Italian, Turbulence will be made by filmmakers and actors from around the world.

“Envision is dedicated to bringing the world together with bold, best-in-class storytelling,” said Michael Nakan, Envision’s founder and CEO. “We see Turbulence as a once in a lifetime prestige project which can introduce the best local talent to truly global audiences, an astonishing accomplishment in the era of streaming.”

David Barron, Envision’s global head of scripted, added: “We could not be more thrilled to work with Madda and Leonardo, who are established industry leaders, working on multi-lingual shows that have both local relevance and global resonance.”

“According to the quantum nature of time and space, an invisible thread exists between every individual who has ever lived on earth,” Fasoli and Ravagli said. “The 12 characters in Turbulence are proof of this, moving us with the conflicts they go through—so similar to our own—and prompting us to wonder how much, in our existence, what is invisible is sometimes more important than what we see.”