Malala Yousafzai’s production banner unveils first slate with Apple TV+

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who inked a programming agreement with Apple TV+ last year, has unveiled the first line-up of film and TV projects with the streamer, backed by her banner Extracurricular.

According to entertainment website Variety, the deal involves dramas, comedies, documentaries, animation and children’s series and will see the Pakistani activist team up with Oscar winner Adam McKay’s production house on a feature film.

The film, titled Disorientation, with McKay’s Hyperobject Industries is an adaptation of Elaine Hsieh Chou’s acclaimed book of the same name. Billed as a “sharp-edged, celebrated satire”, the story centres on a college student’s revealing dissertation on a young poet. The makers are yet to rope in a director for the project.