In 2018, The Crown star Vanessa Kirby submitted the Benjamin Caron -directed episode, “Beryl,” en route to an Emmy nomination. The now Oscar-nominated actor and Emmy-winning EP-director worked together a handful of times on Peter Morgan’s Emmy-winning series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, so they decided to keep a good thing going once they made their respective exits from the Buckingham Palace set.

In 2020, the pandemic threw one potential film project of theirs into disarray, but they eventually bounced back in 2024 when Kirby’s Aluna Entertainment and Caron’s Square Eyed Pictures set up an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s novel The Night Always Comes at Netflix. With the help of their producing partners Jodie Caron (Square Eyed) and Lauren Dark (Aluna), Caron and Kirby

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