EXCLUSIVE : In a competitive situation, Working Title Television has landed the rights to develop and produce a television series about iconic American artist Keith Haring based on Brad Gooch’s biography Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring. All of Us Strangers filmmaker Andrew Haigh is attached to write the adaptation and direct.
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Katy Rozelle will executive produce for Working Title Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. Haigh, Gooch and The Keith Haring Foundation also executive produce.
Haring, a street-artist-turned-AIDS-activist who died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 31, was a pioneer of the pop art movement and a cultural icon of New York City’s graffiti subcultur