Jill Soloway Renews Overall Deal with Amazon Studios
Jill Soloway will be sticking with Amazon Studios for the foreseeable future. The “Transparent” creator and showrunner has extended her overall deal with the streaming service for another three years, The Hollywood Reporter writes. The new pact will begin in June 2018, when her current deal with Amazon expires.
With the renewed deal, Soloway will continue her duties as showrunner of “Transparent” and the upcoming series “I Love Dick.” “She’ll also develop new projects via her Topple production company, which she runs with Andrea Sperling,” THR reports.
“Transparent” revolves around Maura Pfefferman (Jeffrey Tambor), a trans woman in her 70s, and her dysfunctional family. Amazon’s flagship series premiered in 2014 to massive critical acclaim and will return for a fourth season this fall.
“I Love Dick” is based on Chris Kraus’ epistolary novel of the same name. The series stars frequent Soloway muse Kathryn Hahn as a feminist who finds herself inexplicably drawn to a Clint Eastwood-esque professor, Dick (Kevin Bacon). The series premieres this Friday, May 12.
Soloway already has a few other projects in the works at Amazon. The Emmy-winner is exec producing a musical comedy about a woman seeking love and self-discovery, developing “Ten Aker Wood,” a film about a woman leaving her troubled marriage to work on a marijuana farm, and exec producing a limited series about the first All Girl Rodeo.
Recently, Soloway delivered the keynote address at this year’s SXSW festival. The “Afternoon Delight” writer-director discussed the sense of obligation she feels to support other women in TV. “You have to basically look for women, not only identify them, but you have to find them, groom them, help them in every role,” she explained. “You have to invest yourself in helping the new people and help them understand how the system is rigged against them. You have to help them prepare for the emotional, political, leadership aspects of the job. And you have to stay on top of it every single day.”
We wouldn’t expect anything less from the woman who coined the phrase, “Topple the patriarchy!”
