Endemol Shine North America and Bear Grylls\u2019 The Natural Studios, a joint venture with Banijay, have entered into a new production partnership with Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Balboa Productions.<\/p>\n
The three ventures are coming together to develop high-adrenaline, cinematic and genre-bending adventure series. Grylls and Delbert Shoopman from Natural Studios will be executive producing alongside Stallone, Kourosh Taj and Carrie Keagan from Balboa Productions and Sharon Levy and DJ Nurre from Endemol Shine North America.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are truly excited to be working with two of the biggest global names in both action and adventure\u2014Sylvester Stallone and Bear Grylls and their respective production teams,\u201d said Levy, chief content officer at Endemol Shine North America, a division of Banijay. \u201cWe\u2019ve come together to create\u00a0first-of-its-kind, hybrid unscripted series that we look forward to bringing to the marketplace very soon with both Balboa Productions and Natural Studios.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stallone said, \u201cMy goal has always been to push the envelope not only in life but in all of my creative endeavors. Nothing is more satisfying than mixing the improbable with the incredible and creating the unforgettable. What we have planned is epic, beautiful and game-changing, and I can\u2019t wait for everyone to experience it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taj, head of unscripted at Balboa, added, \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to be on this journey\u00a0with the sensational Bear Grylls and his team at The Natural Studios, along with Sharon Levy and the powerhouse crew at Endemol Shine North America. It\u2019s going to be a wild ride!\u201d<\/p>\n
Grylls commented,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s a complete honor to be working with the whole team at Balboa Productions. As possibly the most iconic face in the action space, Sly has long brought an injection of adrenaline to his roles, and we envisage that energy being channeled into our development.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to see these two iconic personalities come together and redefine the unscripted adventure space,\u201d continued The Natural Studios\u2019 Shoopman.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAnd joining forces with Endemol Shine North America, which is behind many of the top unscripted series in the States, will make for a truly powerful production team!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Endemol Shine North America and Bear Grylls\u2019 The Natural Studios, a joint venture with Banijay, have entered into a new production partnership with Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Balboa Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":18869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[112,1134,6438],"class_list":["post-18868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bear-grylls","tag-endemol-shine-north-america","tag-sylvester-stallone","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n