Amazon MGM Studios Developing London Rave Scene Drama From Ed Lilly, Will Graham & Invitation Media

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing a TV series about the underground rave scene in London, one of the first to come from its pact with Will Graham, Tonia Davis and Max Linsky’s Invitation Media.

Industry director Ed Lilly is writing and directing Code, which is being produced by A League of Their Own co-creator Graham.

Amazon isn’t confirming anything but we are told Code is set in the underground rave scene in London. It follows an American girl who runs away from her life in New York and falls in love with a young entrepreneur. Soon after, they decide to open their own club. One source described the series as “Industry meets One Day.”

Casting is still to come and things are at an early stage, we are told. Writer-director Lilly’s credits include HBO-BBC’s Industry and Hulu’s Tell Me Lies, while he is developing a Netflix TV adaptation of Lucy Clarke’s thriller The Surf House.

Last year, Deadline revealed that Graham, ex-Higher Ground co-head Davis and Pineapple Street Studios co-founder Linsky’s Invitation Media had struck a TV deal with Amazon MGM Studios. Code is one of the first development projects to emerge from the deal, along with Spy Coast, which is based on Tess Gerritsen’s novel. On the movie side, Invitation is making Amazon’s Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man with Daniel Radcliffe and Lucas Hedges, while it struck an audio partnership with the Washington Post.

Graham previously worked with Amazon on A League of Their Own, which he co-created with Abbi Jacobson, and Daisy Jones & the Six. Lilly is repped by Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment. Graham is repped by Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment and UTA.

Amazon declined comment on Code.