Trophy Boys
TV Series
After Trophy Boy premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 and went on to have a very successful award winning festival run, it is now being developed into a television series with Dynamic Television.
The short film Trophy Boy is about the fall of an insufferable gay Instagram “influencer” who is being dumped by his sugar daddy, is being developed into a TV series.
After beating several offers, production, financing and distribution company Dynamic Television announced that it has acquired the adaptation rights to Trophy Boy, the critically-acclaimed short film from Emrhys Cooper (Vanity, Mamma Mia).
The series, to be titled Trophy Boys, which promises to be just as juicy as the short film, will follow the lives of a group of interconnected social media stars as they struggle to maintain their carefully crafted #bestlife personas.
Trophy Boy was universally praised and screened at several prestigious film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, Dances with Films, California Independent Film Festival, Catskills International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival and Chelsea Film Festival.
The film has just been invited to screen at two more festivals, Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival (February 1—20, 2019) and the Santa Fe Film Festival (February 17, 2019.).
Cooper and fellow Trophy Boy actor Donal Brophy will executive produce along with Dynamic Television’s Holly Hines. Dynamic Television will also serve as studio and international distributor. Danika Underhill will produce.
Dynamic’s series includes the Icelandic crime drama Trapped, Van Helsing, Wynona Earp and Z Nation for SYFY and five-time Emmy nominated series East Los High (Hulu) and Madiba (BET).
“We were immediately drawn by the unique way Emrhys explores social media and the repercussions of using it to determine your own self-worth. It touches a nerve in all of us while doing so with humor and heart. We are thrilled to bring it to television,” said Hines, Senior Vice President of Original Content for Dynamic.
On working with Dynamic, Cooper said, “I’m truly delighted to partner with Dynamic Television to make the world of ‘Trophy Boys’ come to life. In the age of social media, it’s easy to get lost in the false world of online avatars we create for ourselves. With this series, we hope to pull back the curtain and show the day-to-day struggles of these “influencers.” Sometimes we all need a reminder that all that glitters isn’t gold.”
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