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Dolittle's Stephen Gaghan Sets Supernatural Series 'Chambers' at Netflix

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Dolittle's Stephen Gaghan Sets Supernatural Series 'Chambers' at Netflix
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The old adage about "the heart wants what the heart wants" may not turn out to be such a good thing for our lead in Netflix's new hour-long supernatural series Chambers. Created and written by Leah Rachel (Audrey), Akela Cooper (Marvel's Luke Cage) will serve as the series showrunner; with award-winning writer/director Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana) serving as executive producer.

The 10-episode series is described as centering on "a young heart attack survivor becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding the heart that saved her life. However, the closer she gets to uncovering the truth about her donor's sudden death, the more she starts taking on the characteristics of the deceased — some of which are troublingly sinister."

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Stephen Gaghan. Credit: Cindy Maram [CC BY-SA 2.0], Wikimedia Commons
While Gaghan is new to the family-friendly film world, he's recently directed Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey; and also helmed Syriana. Gaghan won an Oscar for scripting the Steven Soderbergh-directed Traffic; and is set to direct/co-write Universal Pictures' Untitled Doctor Dolittle project, starring Robert Downey Jr. in the title role. Along with Netflix's Marvel's Luke Cage, Cooper's series credits include V, Grimm, The 100, Witches of East End and American Horror Story: Roanoke. Produced and developed through Super Deluxe, which Cooper represents as executive producer, also has Rachel and Gaghan executive producing through his Super Emotional banner.

In an interview posted online in February 2017 with The Independent, Gaghan was promoting his work on Gold when he was asked if he he prefers working off of someone else's writing/ideas (as was the case with Gold) or working with his own material:

"I think it's always better to shoot your own stuff because you come with such an advantage; you just know the answers to all the questions already. But often the thing I'm interested in isn't the thing the world is interested in. Or doesn't know it's yet interested in."

Source: Deadline Hollywood

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Ray FlookAbout Ray Flook

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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