Dav Patel (The Personal History of David Copperfield, Slumdog Millionaire) will star in and executive produce The Key Man, a limited series based on the 2021 book The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale by Simon Clark and Will Louch. Deadline reported that the project is from Miramax Television, "part of the company's increased international focus, signaled by the hire three years ago of former NBCUniversal International Studios executive Marc Helwig--who has deep European TV industry ties--as Miramax's Global Head of Television."
Mining the independent studio's library has been a priority for Helwig and his team, who have shepherded series projects based Miramax movies like The Gentlemen, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Gangs of New York, Chocolat, The English Patient and Prêt-à-Porter.
Helwig said, "Miramax is a legacy company built on backing innovative, new voices, and we are recapturing that essence in television with our approach to working with many new and emerging voices in Europe and beyond."
Patel executive produces The Key Man alongside Scott Delman (Station Eleven) and Florence Sloan (Dehli Crime), who had optioned the book.