Facebook’s originating got the movie dealing with Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Network.”
The story of how Snapchat appeared to be will be a flagship series on the forthcoming streaming service, Quibi.
Now, Spotify is the newest startup to get its story narrated on screen — this time, as the latest Netflix show.
The Story of “Spotify Untold”
Netflix states that it is producing a scripted series motivated by the book “Spotify Untold” by business articles at Swedish Dagens Industri, Sven Carlsson, and Jonas Leijonhufvud.
The story will center on Spotify’s originating and how it transformed the way people listen to music across the past decade.
Tesha Crawford, Director of International Originals Northern Europe at Netflix, stated that the originating tale of Spotify is an excellent example of how a local story can have such a global impact.
She said that they are very excited about bringing this progress story to life, and they look forward to maintaining their excellent collaboration with director Per-Olav Sørensen and the crew at Yellow Bird UK.
The Banijay Group company, Yellow Bird UK, is even the production company behind the forthcoming Netflix crime series “Young Wallander.”
Yellow Bird UK will produce this latest and yet-to-be-titled Spotify show, and Per-Olav Sørensen will direct it.
Berna Levin (“Young Wallander,” “Hidden,” and “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”) will work as the executive producer.
As Netflix’s statement also notes, describing the story of a tech startup can be challenging because things move and change swiftly.
Spotify, after all, is yet about and growing.
It is possible that by the time the show goes to air, it will have encountered several more transformations.
Berna Levin, the Executive Producer at Yellow Bird, said that he is thrilled to be executing this timely and exciting series for Netflix.
Why The Story Is Fascinating
The story of how a tiny band of Swedish tech industry insiders changed music – how we listen to it and how it is created – is surely a tale for our time.
This is not just a story about the way all our lives have turned in the last decade.
It is about the struggle for cultural and financial power in a globalized, digitized world.
Netflix has not yet shared a release date for the series.
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