Annapurna Pictures Plans Greta Garbo/Marlene Dietrich Series

A drama set in classic HollywoodMegan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures has earned a reputation for helping fund films other companies weren’t willing to take a risk on, like Spike Jonze’s Her, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. The company is now looking to get into television, setting up an untitled project about Hollywood icons Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.Annapurna has True Blood writer Angela Robinson and The L Word’s Alex Kondracke scripting the project, which is mostly being kept under wraps for now in terms of content and where it might end up – the project doesn’t yet have a network or channel involved.But we can imagine there being some interest in a series that would delve into the lives of two such fascinating screen legends, including their rivalry and the circles in which they mixed during Hollywood’s Golden Age.

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