Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin’s founded their company in 2005. Its recent hits include All Of Us Strangers and Wicked Little Letters
Need to know: Formed in 2005 by Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin and now comprising a team of 17, Blueprint is in post on two features, and has wrapped a third in Scotland with a major US director, unannounced at press time. Past hits include Martin McDonagh’s four features (most recently The Banshees Of Inisherin), Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters, Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers and John Madden’s two The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films. Blueprint’s Sony Pictures Television-backed TV division saw 2018 three-part miniseries A Very English Scandal spawn sequels A Very British Scandal (2021) and A Very Royal Scandal (2024).
Key personnel: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, co-chairmen; Diarmuid McKeown, managing director; Ben Knight, head of film; Sabina Smitham, head of film development.
Incoming: Awaiting release by Studiocanal and A24 is John Patton Ford’s Huntington, which takes inspiration from Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets and stars Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley and Ed Harris.
Backed by Searchlight Pictures and Film4, Martin McDonagh’s 1970s-set Wild Horse Nine shot earlier this year in Easter Island and Santiago, Chile and stars Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, Parker Posey and Steve Buscemi.
For Netflix, Bringing Up Bébé is based on the bestselling memoir by The New York Times journalist Pamela Druckerman, recounting how she became impressed with (and intimidated by) French parenting when she moved to Paris. Blueprint has guided the story into a “frenemy comedy” feature film, scripted by Catherine Reitman (TV’s Workin’ Moms) and set to shoot next year.
Studiocanal-backed The Midnight Library is adapted from the 2020 Matt Haig bestseller, and is now being packaged with filmmaker and cast. In development is a scripted feature inspired by Benjamin Ree’s 2020 documentary The Painter And The Thief, with a script by Duncan Macmillan. Francis Lee is working on a reimagining of Joseph Losey’s 1963 film The Servant.
Pete Czernin says: “We all have different tastes so it’s quite an eclectic mix, which I think works well. I don’t think there’s anything we wouldn’t do, except maybe very low-budget movies. We’re trying to reach into places with the best European and American talent, and shaking it all up; we’re ambitious to try anything and everything, but to keep growing as well.”
Contact: info@blueprintpictures.com
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