Production is getting underway on The Kitchen, written and co-produced by Daniel Kaluuya for Netflix.

Kaluuya co-wrote the feature alongside Joe Murtagh from an idea by Kaluuya, Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Emmerson. It marks the directorial feature debut for Tavares; filming takes place in London and Paris.

Emmerson produces The Kitchen for DMC Film; Kaluuya produces under his 59% Productions banner.

The Kitchen is set in London, 2044, a future where the gap between rich and poor has been stretched to its limits. All forms of social housing have been eradicated and London”s working classes have been forced to live in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, The Kitchen is the first and the largest of its kind – London”s last village harbouring residents that refuse to move on and move out of the place they call home.

The film was developed with the support of Film4 for whom David Kimbangi and Ollie Madden serve as executive producers.

Theo Barrowclough will serve as a co-producer, while Conor McCaughan and Michael Fassbender executive produce for DMC Film.

Kaluuya said: “In 2011, I was in my barbershop and there was a guy boasting about smash and grabs — kids doing million-pound heists in a minute, getting paid £200 to do it.

“I saw the potential to unlock a unique story door to the inequality, fatherhood, class, joy, resilience, courage, defiance and care of London. Now, nearly a decade later, Kibwe Tavares, Daniel Emmerson and I are about to start production, immersing ourselves in a dystopian London that interrogates what ‘care’ means, at home and as a society and the dangers in our future if we stay indifferent to everything around us.

“I feel blessed and honoured that my first co-writing film credit is with this inspiring group of creatives, and with the support of Film 4 and Netflix. All of us are excited to watch Kibwe”s incredible, cinematic, electric vision come to life, and to create a moment that audiences want to take with them.”

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