Missing You screenwriter Victoria Asare-Archer is developing a new environmental legal drama for Eleventh Hour Films.
Asare Archer is the lead writer and executive producer on Netflix’s Harlan Coben adaptation Missing You, and previously wrote the screenplay for Netflix’s Stay Close and the Emmy-nominated VR game Doctor Who: The Runaways.
The series, based on Monica Feria Tinta’s 2025 book A Barrister For The Earth, focuses on those working on cutting-edge environmental law to protect the planet from climate change.
Feria Tinta’s book, shortlisted for the Westminster Book Award, will also be an inspiration for this series. This public international law lawyer appears in courtrooms around the world in pursuit of environmental justice. In 2020, she brought the world’s first ‘rights to nature’ case in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court, and in 2022 she helped persuade the UN Human Rights Committee to find sovereign states responsible for lack of action on climate change in the Torres Strait Islander case.
Eleventh Hour, backed by Sony Pictures, known for shows such as “Alex Rider” and “The Magpies,” has teamed up on the project with Climate Spring, a global organization whose mission is to revolutionize the way climate change is represented on screen and in popular culture.
“We are honored that Eleventh Hour Films and Climate Spring saw the potential for this story to reach a wider audience,” said Feria Tinta. “The issues at the heart of this book – environmental justice, the beauty of the natural world, and the power of law to protect it – are worth seeing and hearing.”
Eve Gutierrez and Paula Cuddy, co-CEOs of Eleventh Hour Films, said: “Monica is a fearless legal thinker who has written books that deftly demonstrate how the law is a powerful tool for the survival of our planet. Above all, she offers us what we all need now: hope for the future.”
“We are thrilled to have talented writer Victoria Asare-Archer create an original contemporary series set in the exciting new world of environmental law, and to partner with Climate Spring, who share our vision of delivering commercial scripted content in this space.”
Lucy Stone, founder of Climate Spring, added: “We are excited to bring our partnership and climate change storytelling expertise to this project. Legal drama is an exciting storytelling lens to explore the climate crisis and has great potential to reach audiences who come to be entertained while thoughtfully unpacking issues of justice, accountability and power.”
