Almodovar ventures into TV with “Verge”

Thanks to iggy for the tip to news of Pedro Almodovar’s involvement in an English-language adaptation of
his Oscar-nominated 1988 feature “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.” Fox TV Studios is backing the hour-long project. Almovodar and writer Mimi Schmir are exec producing.

The original movie, starring Carmen Maura and featuring Antonio Banderas, was inspired by 1950s Hollywood comedies. Featuring Almodovar’s trademark rapid-fire dialogue and fast-paced action, it chronicles a two-day period in the life of a voice actress who has been abandoned by her lover and gets in a series of comedic situations while frantically trying to track him down…

“Pedro Almodovar is unarguably one of the great filmmakers of our time, and this movie overflows with rich, funny, complex characters and relationships — that isn’t a bad place to start,” FtvS executive vp David Madden said. (THR)