Exclusive: Sky Yang is set to star in the Justin Lin-directed feature The Last Days of John Allen Chau, which was written on spec by Ben Ripley. The project is based on an Alex Perry-penned article for Outside Magazine. The Gotham Group developed the film internally.
Besides directing the pic, Lin will also produce alongside Andrew Schneider and Sal Gatdula through Lin’s Perfect Storm shingle, along with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson through The Gotham Group and Clayton Townsend, who is also on board as producer. Executive producers include Perry, Luke Speed of Speed Literary and Talent, Outside Magazine and George Heller of Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
The Last Days of John Allen Chau is based on the Outside Magazine article of the same name published by journalist Alex Perry. The film follows Chau, who believes he has been chosen to save the souls of the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island,...
Besides directing the pic, Lin will also produce alongside Andrew Schneider and Sal Gatdula through Lin’s Perfect Storm shingle, along with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson through The Gotham Group and Clayton Townsend, who is also on board as producer. Executive producers include Perry, Luke Speed of Speed Literary and Talent, Outside Magazine and George Heller of Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
The Last Days of John Allen Chau is based on the Outside Magazine article of the same name published by journalist Alex Perry. The film follows Chau, who believes he has been chosen to save the souls of the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Luther and Hobbs & Shaw star Idris Elba is set to star in, produce and direct action-thriller Infernus, which Millennium Media will also produce and shop at next week’s Cannes market.
Elba will play Donovan Kamara, a U.N. human rights activist sent to investigate reports of refugees being illegally detained inside a U.S. black site prison. A seemingly simple task turns deadly when the world’s most dangerous inmates break free. Kamara must work to safely extricate the refugees, all while going head-to-head with a brilliant criminal mastermind.
Based on a story by Tom Boyle and screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, the film is due to go into production on October 9th in London.
While most filming will be done in London, additional principal photography will take place in the new Td Akuna Studios in Ghana, a venture Elba — who has both Ghanaian and Sierre Leonean lineage...
Elba will play Donovan Kamara, a U.N. human rights activist sent to investigate reports of refugees being illegally detained inside a U.S. black site prison. A seemingly simple task turns deadly when the world’s most dangerous inmates break free. Kamara must work to safely extricate the refugees, all while going head-to-head with a brilliant criminal mastermind.
Based on a story by Tom Boyle and screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, the film is due to go into production on October 9th in London.
While most filming will be done in London, additional principal photography will take place in the new Td Akuna Studios in Ghana, a venture Elba — who has both Ghanaian and Sierre Leonean lineage...
- 5/12/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: C.J. Cooke’s supernatural family novel The Lighthouse Witches is set to be adapted into a television series after Studiocanal and The Picture Company landed the rights to the book.
The two companies closed the rights to the book and are currently packaging the series.
Published last year by Penguin Random House, the book follows young mother Liv and her three daughters who arrive on a mysterious Scottish island to run a decrepit lighthouse.
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge.
The two companies closed the rights to the book and are currently packaging the series.
Published last year by Penguin Random House, the book follows young mother Liv and her three daughters who arrive on a mysterious Scottish island to run a decrepit lighthouse.
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge.
- 3/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sony Pictures’ 3000 Pictures has acquired film adaptation rights to Lucy Foley’s new book, The Paris Apartment, which became an instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller after its release last month by William Morrow, a U.S. imprint of HarperCollins.
The Paris Apartment follows aspiring journalist Ben, who lives in an old apartment block near the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine. He’s moved to Paris for a fresh start and isn’t thrilled when his chaotic sister Jess asks if she can crash with him after leaving her job in London. But he didn’t say no, and surely everything looks better from Paris. However, Ben isn’t there when Jess arrives and doesn’t show up the next morning. Jess soon realizes that the block’s inhabitants are the only people that can help, but they are a dysfunctional,...
The Paris Apartment follows aspiring journalist Ben, who lives in an old apartment block near the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine. He’s moved to Paris for a fresh start and isn’t thrilled when his chaotic sister Jess asks if she can crash with him after leaving her job in London. But he didn’t say no, and surely everything looks better from Paris. However, Ben isn’t there when Jess arrives and doesn’t show up the next morning. Jess soon realizes that the block’s inhabitants are the only people that can help, but they are a dysfunctional,...
- 3/4/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Pulse Films Options ‘Underbelly,’ Bestselling Book About Complexity of Modern Motherhood (Exclusive)
“Gangs of London” producer Pulse Films has secured the rights to Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson’s Sunday Times-bestselling novel “Underbelly.”
Released early in August, the book tells the story of two women, Lo and Dylan, who are living parallel lives while being worlds apart. Lo is a middle-class mother with perfectly polished Instagram posts, while Dylan holds down a zero-hours telemarketing job while trying to keep food on the table. When they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each other’s homes and lives — with devastating consequences.
The book deal was brokered for the authors by Luke Speed on behalf of Cathryn Summerhayes of the Curtis Brown Group and by Jamie Hall and Tim O’Shea for Pulse Films. Storylining has begun, with the novel being adapted for the screen by Farquharson and Whitehouse, who are married and write together under the latter’s name.
Whitehouse is the founder of Mother Pukka,...
Released early in August, the book tells the story of two women, Lo and Dylan, who are living parallel lives while being worlds apart. Lo is a middle-class mother with perfectly polished Instagram posts, while Dylan holds down a zero-hours telemarketing job while trying to keep food on the table. When they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each other’s homes and lives — with devastating consequences.
The book deal was brokered for the authors by Luke Speed on behalf of Cathryn Summerhayes of the Curtis Brown Group and by Jamie Hall and Tim O’Shea for Pulse Films. Storylining has begun, with the novel being adapted for the screen by Farquharson and Whitehouse, who are married and write together under the latter’s name.
Whitehouse is the founder of Mother Pukka,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The Curtis Brown Group has taken over representation for Iain Banks’ literary estate, including book to film rights.
Curtis Brown’s Luke Speed will act as the literary estate’s dedicated agent for film and TV adaptation and has already unveiled his first deal, for the author’s 1999 thriller “The Business,” which is being adapted for television by Stigma Films (“Yesterday”). Previously, the estate’s book to film rights were handled by Sayle Screen.
Curtis Brown will also take over book rights from the Mic Cheetham Agency and translation rights from the Marsh Agency.
Becky Brown at Curtis Brown Heritage will now handle book rights and Alexander Cochran at Curtis Brown’s sister agency, C&w, will handle the translation rights.
Scottish born-Banks wrote under two names in two different genres: literary fictions (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks). The former sits alongside authors such as...
Curtis Brown’s Luke Speed will act as the literary estate’s dedicated agent for film and TV adaptation and has already unveiled his first deal, for the author’s 1999 thriller “The Business,” which is being adapted for television by Stigma Films (“Yesterday”). Previously, the estate’s book to film rights were handled by Sayle Screen.
Curtis Brown will also take over book rights from the Mic Cheetham Agency and translation rights from the Marsh Agency.
Becky Brown at Curtis Brown Heritage will now handle book rights and Alexander Cochran at Curtis Brown’s sister agency, C&w, will handle the translation rights.
Scottish born-Banks wrote under two names in two different genres: literary fictions (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks). The former sits alongside authors such as...
- 10/14/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Yesterday producer Matthew James Wilkinson is teaming up with Poldark and Endeavour exec producer Tom Mullens on a TV adaptation of Scottish author Iain Banks’ thriller novel The Business.
The project marks the latest foray into TV for Wilkinson’s Stigma Films, which is ramping up a TV slate that also includes Steven Knight’s Two Tone drama in development with Kudos.
The Business follows Kate Telman, a working-class Glaswegian who has risen through the ranks to become a senior executive in a secretive super-corporation, known only as The Business. Telman discovers that The Business is planning to buy a small country in order to secure a seat on the Un and that, despite the benevolent image and democratic structure it presents to the world, the company will stop at nothing to increase its influence. So begins a dangerous personal reckoning as Telman travels the globe from Scotland to the Swiss Alps,...
The project marks the latest foray into TV for Wilkinson’s Stigma Films, which is ramping up a TV slate that also includes Steven Knight’s Two Tone drama in development with Kudos.
The Business follows Kate Telman, a working-class Glaswegian who has risen through the ranks to become a senior executive in a secretive super-corporation, known only as The Business. Telman discovers that The Business is planning to buy a small country in order to secure a seat on the Un and that, despite the benevolent image and democratic structure it presents to the world, the company will stop at nothing to increase its influence. So begins a dangerous personal reckoning as Telman travels the globe from Scotland to the Swiss Alps,...
- 9/23/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a project that’s likely to generate plenty of buzz globally: Studiocanal is reuniting the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated team behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to adapt spy author Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe Sequence novels into a major television series.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy writer Peter Straughan and director Tomas Alfredson will turn the best-selling novels into an eight-part series, titled Europa, which will be co-produced by Seven Stories, the All3Media-backed production company founded by Girl With A Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker.
Hutchinson has written four Fractured Europe Sequence books since 2014. The series is set in a near-future Europe, which has splintered into countless tiny nation-states after being ravaged by a pandemic and economic decay.
In the first book, Europe In Autumn, Rudi, a chef based out of a small restaurant in Krakow, Poland, is drawn into a new career with Les Coureurs des Bois,...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy writer Peter Straughan and director Tomas Alfredson will turn the best-selling novels into an eight-part series, titled Europa, which will be co-produced by Seven Stories, the All3Media-backed production company founded by Girl With A Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker.
Hutchinson has written four Fractured Europe Sequence books since 2014. The series is set in a near-future Europe, which has splintered into countless tiny nation-states after being ravaged by a pandemic and economic decay.
In the first book, Europe In Autumn, Rudi, a chef based out of a small restaurant in Krakow, Poland, is drawn into a new career with Les Coureurs des Bois,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
An adaptation of the novel “We Go Around in the Night and are Consumed by Fire” by “Loaded” producers Hillbilly Films and Television has attached its key creative team.
BAFTA-nominated helmer Georgi Banks-Davies (“I Hate Suzie”) is set to direct the limited drama series, while Clare McQuillan (“Impulse”) is writing. The film deal was brokered by Luke Speed of the Curtis Brown Group on behalf of Alexander Cochran of C&w Agency.
Inspired by graffiti found on an overpass in Manchester, Jules Grant’s debut novel is a queer love story and revenge thriller that provides a little-seen view of British gangland in Manchester, from a female perspective.
Banks-Davies most recently served as the lead director on Sky series “I Hate Suzie,” which is nominated for the best series BAFTA TV Award as well as an emerging talent (fiction) nod for the director. Her additional credits include short drama “Garfield,...
BAFTA-nominated helmer Georgi Banks-Davies (“I Hate Suzie”) is set to direct the limited drama series, while Clare McQuillan (“Impulse”) is writing. The film deal was brokered by Luke Speed of the Curtis Brown Group on behalf of Alexander Cochran of C&w Agency.
Inspired by graffiti found on an overpass in Manchester, Jules Grant’s debut novel is a queer love story and revenge thriller that provides a little-seen view of British gangland in Manchester, from a female perspective.
Banks-Davies most recently served as the lead director on Sky series “I Hate Suzie,” which is nominated for the best series BAFTA TV Award as well as an emerging talent (fiction) nod for the director. Her additional credits include short drama “Garfield,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
“The Crown” executive producer Suzanne Mackie has landed one of the first projects out of her newly formed production banner, Orchid Pictures, scoring the option on author Alice Feeney’s highly anticipated thriller “Rock Paper Scissors.”
Feeney is the New York Times-bestselling author behind “His & Hers,” which is also being adapted into a series by Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, Kristen Campo and Endeavor Content, who snapped up rights last year. Her debut novel “Sometimes I Lie,” which has been translated into more than 20 languages, is also being made into a TV series by Warner Bros. starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.
“Rock Paper Scissors” — the logline for which is, “Think you know the person you married? Think again…” — centers on a troubled marriage that comes to a head during a Scottish weekend getaway that Mr. and Mrs. Wright randomly win. Things have been wrong with the couple for a long time:...
Feeney is the New York Times-bestselling author behind “His & Hers,” which is also being adapted into a series by Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, Kristen Campo and Endeavor Content, who snapped up rights last year. Her debut novel “Sometimes I Lie,” which has been translated into more than 20 languages, is also being made into a TV series by Warner Bros. starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.
“Rock Paper Scissors” — the logline for which is, “Think you know the person you married? Think again…” — centers on a troubled marriage that comes to a head during a Scottish weekend getaway that Mr. and Mrs. Wright randomly win. Things have been wrong with the couple for a long time:...
- 4/13/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson is to adapt Kate London’s Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem into a three-part ITV series, which will be housed at Harbinson’s new UK-based production firm and Mammoth Screen.
The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling opening sequence in which a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.
Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.
The Tower will be produced by Harbinson’s...
The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling opening sequence in which a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.
Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.
The Tower will be produced by Harbinson’s...
- 3/11/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anna Friel, star of Netflix/ITV crime drama Marcella, is to front a television adaption of Karen Hamilton’s novel The Perfect Girlfriend.
The drama will be produced by Pulse Films, the Vice-owned company behind Sky/AMC drama Gangs of London, and co-produced by Friel’s new production company Wonder Well Productions.
Friel, who also starred in ABC’s Pushing Daisies, will play Juliette, an attractive, confident and driven woman who is training for her new career as a flight attendant.
The darkness in her past doesn’t matter, because she’s moved beyond all that, and she’s building a great new life for herself—one that will impress her ex-boyfriend, Nate, who left her in a foolish moment of commitment-phobia, one that he surely regrets now. But he’ll be so proud of her once he sees how much she’s grown. And he will see her.
The drama will be produced by Pulse Films, the Vice-owned company behind Sky/AMC drama Gangs of London, and co-produced by Friel’s new production company Wonder Well Productions.
Friel, who also starred in ABC’s Pushing Daisies, will play Juliette, an attractive, confident and driven woman who is training for her new career as a flight attendant.
The darkness in her past doesn’t matter, because she’s moved beyond all that, and she’s building a great new life for herself—one that will impress her ex-boyfriend, Nate, who left her in a foolish moment of commitment-phobia, one that he surely regrets now. But he’ll be so proud of her once he sees how much she’s grown. And he will see her.
- 2/18/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Freddy Syborn, a writer and co-exec producer on Disney+’s upcoming Ms. Marvel series and co-creator of Jack Whitehall comedy drama Bounty Hunters, is adapting Daniel Cole’s Ragdoll for AMC and UKTV network Alibi.
The series comes from Sid Gentle Films, the British production company behind Killing Eve.
The six-part drama, described as a “modern-day Faustian thriller”, is centred around the murder of six people, whose bodies have been dismembered and sewn into the shape of one grotesque body — nicknamed the ‘Ragdoll’.
Assigned to the shocking case are DS Nathan Rose, recently reinstated to the London Met; his best friend and boss, Di Emily Baxter; and the unit’s new recruit, DC Lake Edmunds. The ‘Ragdoll Killer’ taunts the police by sending them a list of his next victims, with Rose’s name among them. And with those victims to protect, our heroes soon come under intense public scrutiny.
The series comes from Sid Gentle Films, the British production company behind Killing Eve.
The six-part drama, described as a “modern-day Faustian thriller”, is centred around the murder of six people, whose bodies have been dismembered and sewn into the shape of one grotesque body — nicknamed the ‘Ragdoll’.
Assigned to the shocking case are DS Nathan Rose, recently reinstated to the London Met; his best friend and boss, Di Emily Baxter; and the unit’s new recruit, DC Lake Edmunds. The ‘Ragdoll Killer’ taunts the police by sending them a list of his next victims, with Rose’s name among them. And with those victims to protect, our heroes soon come under intense public scrutiny.
- 2/18/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: 101 Studios has acquired Janet Reitman’s 2017 New York Times Magazine article about the death of Marine Corps recruit Raheel Siddiqui that revealed a culture of brutality against Muslims at a South Carolina military training base. The article will be used as source material for a scripted limited series produced by 101 Studios.
Reitman’s article recounts the mysterious death of Siddiqui, which led to exposing a corrupt, brutal and torturous culture at Parris Island boot camp in South Carolina. In 2016, after days of continuous hazing and harassment, Siddiqui, a brand-new Marine Corps recruit, fell to his death at Parris Island in front of several of his fellow recruits. As investigations began into Siddiqui’s tragic death, a pattern of cyclical, systemic abuse emerged. The series will chronicle the traumatic moments leading up to Siddiqui’s fall while also uncovering the culture of abuse that has plagued the Parris Island boot camp.
Reitman’s article recounts the mysterious death of Siddiqui, which led to exposing a corrupt, brutal and torturous culture at Parris Island boot camp in South Carolina. In 2016, after days of continuous hazing and harassment, Siddiqui, a brand-new Marine Corps recruit, fell to his death at Parris Island in front of several of his fellow recruits. As investigations began into Siddiqui’s tragic death, a pattern of cyclical, systemic abuse emerged. The series will chronicle the traumatic moments leading up to Siddiqui’s fall while also uncovering the culture of abuse that has plagued the Parris Island boot camp.
- 2/4/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Ramin Bahrani is set to adapt, direct and produce the film adaptation of the novel Amnesty for Netflix. The film is based on the novel by White Tiger author Aravind Adiga and will also be produced by Ashok Amritraj for Hyde Park Entertainment. Bahrani’s partner Bahareh Azimi will also produce through their Noruz Films banner.
“I am thrilled to adapt Aravind’s great new novel, ‘Amnesty.’ And very grateful to partner with Netflix and my lead creative producer Bahareh Azimi once again,” said Bahrani. “This novel gripped me from the first time Aravind shared a rough draft with me five years ago. I can’t wait to bring it to the screen.”
The story is set in Australia and follows an illegal immigrant who cleans houses, realizes he has information about sudden murder of one of his employers. Over the course of one tense summer day, Danny plays a...
“I am thrilled to adapt Aravind’s great new novel, ‘Amnesty.’ And very grateful to partner with Netflix and my lead creative producer Bahareh Azimi once again,” said Bahrani. “This novel gripped me from the first time Aravind shared a rough draft with me five years ago. I can’t wait to bring it to the screen.”
The story is set in Australia and follows an illegal immigrant who cleans houses, realizes he has information about sudden murder of one of his employers. Over the course of one tense summer day, Danny plays a...
- 2/2/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Following the successful launch of “The White Tiger,” filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, author Aravind Adiga and Netflix have set their next collaboration. Bahrani will again write, direct and produce the film adaptation of Adiga’s work — this time bringing the author’s 2020 novel, “Amnesty,” to the screen.
“I am thrilled to adapt Aravind’s great new novel, ‘Amnesty.” And very grateful to partner with Netflix and my lead creative producer Bahareh Azimi once again,” Bahrani said in a statement. Bahrani and Azimi both served as producers on “The White Tiger,” Adiga’s New York Times bestseller and Man Booker Prize-winning novel, which was released by the streamer on Jan. 22.
Bahrani continued: “This novel gripped me from the first time Aravind shared a rough draft with me five years ago. I can’t wait to bring it to the screen.”
Set in Australia, the story centers on Danny, an undocumented immigrant who cleans houses.
“I am thrilled to adapt Aravind’s great new novel, ‘Amnesty.” And very grateful to partner with Netflix and my lead creative producer Bahareh Azimi once again,” Bahrani said in a statement. Bahrani and Azimi both served as producers on “The White Tiger,” Adiga’s New York Times bestseller and Man Booker Prize-winning novel, which was released by the streamer on Jan. 22.
Bahrani continued: “This novel gripped me from the first time Aravind shared a rough draft with me five years ago. I can’t wait to bring it to the screen.”
Set in Australia, the story centers on Danny, an undocumented immigrant who cleans houses.
- 2/2/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
After directing an adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s book “The White Tiger” for Netflix, director Ramin Bahrani will next take on the author’s book “Amnesty” that’s also set up at the streamer.
Bahrani will write, direct and produce an adaptation of “Amnesty,” which was published in 2020 and is the story of an illegal immigrant in Australia, who realizes that he has information about the sudden murder of one of his employers. The book takes place over the course of one tense summer day as the man plays a game of cat and mouse with the suspected murderer, all while fearing that he will be deported if he speaks up.
Bahrani will produce “Amnesty” for Noruz Films alongside Ashok Amritraj for Hyde Park Entertainment and Bahareh Azimi.
The novel “The White Tiger” was a New York Times bestseller and won the Man Booker Prize; Bahrani’s film adaptation debuted...
Bahrani will write, direct and produce an adaptation of “Amnesty,” which was published in 2020 and is the story of an illegal immigrant in Australia, who realizes that he has information about the sudden murder of one of his employers. The book takes place over the course of one tense summer day as the man plays a game of cat and mouse with the suspected murderer, all while fearing that he will be deported if he speaks up.
Bahrani will produce “Amnesty” for Noruz Films alongside Ashok Amritraj for Hyde Park Entertainment and Bahareh Azimi.
The novel “The White Tiger” was a New York Times bestseller and won the Man Booker Prize; Bahrani’s film adaptation debuted...
- 2/2/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Global lit and talent agency Curtis Brown Group has inked a deal to represent its first podcast company, Message Heard.
The UK audio outfit has credits including the Arias-nominated Conflicted, Spotify’s Football Legends, Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast, and Undiscovered. The company will now team with Curtis Brown on its next project, In Focus, with photographer David Yarrow. Debuting February 3, the show will tell the stories behind some of the most captivating natural world photography on earth, taken by Yarrow himself, across six episodes.
Curtis Brown will work with Message Heard to launch new podcasts as well as exploiting IP for film and TV. Luke Speed will handle media rights across film, TV and documentary for the company.
“In such a short space of time, we have seen podcasts evolve at the most astonishing rate. This relationship has many aspects we are very excited about; first and...
The UK audio outfit has credits including the Arias-nominated Conflicted, Spotify’s Football Legends, Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast, and Undiscovered. The company will now team with Curtis Brown on its next project, In Focus, with photographer David Yarrow. Debuting February 3, the show will tell the stories behind some of the most captivating natural world photography on earth, taken by Yarrow himself, across six episodes.
Curtis Brown will work with Message Heard to launch new podcasts as well as exploiting IP for film and TV. Luke Speed will handle media rights across film, TV and documentary for the company.
“In such a short space of time, we have seen podcasts evolve at the most astonishing rate. This relationship has many aspects we are very excited about; first and...
- 1/27/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Brie Larson is set to star in the Apple TV+ drama “Lessons in Chemistry,” which has been given a straight-to-series order, the streaming service said Friday.
Per Apple, “Set in the early 1960s, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one. When Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and fired from her lab, she musters the ingenuity only a single mother has. She accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes… all the while craving a return to her true love: science.”
The series, which is based on the upcoming, debut novel from author, science editor and copywriter Bonnie Garmus, will be...
Per Apple, “Set in the early 1960s, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one. When Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and fired from her lab, she musters the ingenuity only a single mother has. She accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes… all the while craving a return to her true love: science.”
The series, which is based on the upcoming, debut novel from author, science editor and copywriter Bonnie Garmus, will be...
- 1/22/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Brie Larson is set to star in and executive produce the drama series “Lessons in Chemistry,” which has landed a straight-to-series order at Apple in a competitive situation, Variety has learned exclusively.
Susannah Grant, who was previously nominated for an Academy Award for writing the screenplay for “Erin Brockovich,” will write and executive produce the series. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan will also executive produce under their Aggregate Films banner, which currently produces shows like “Ozark” at Netflix, “The Outsider” at HBO, and “A Teacher” at FX on Hulu. Apple Studios will produce.
The series is based on the upcoming debut novel from author, science editor, and copywriter Bonnie Garmus. Set in the early 1960s, “Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one. When Elizabeth finds herself pregnant,...
Susannah Grant, who was previously nominated for an Academy Award for writing the screenplay for “Erin Brockovich,” will write and executive produce the series. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan will also executive produce under their Aggregate Films banner, which currently produces shows like “Ozark” at Netflix, “The Outsider” at HBO, and “A Teacher” at FX on Hulu. Apple Studios will produce.
The series is based on the upcoming debut novel from author, science editor, and copywriter Bonnie Garmus. Set in the early 1960s, “Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one. When Elizabeth finds herself pregnant,...
- 1/22/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Stampede Ventures and wiip have partnered to adapt the first book in Gareth L. Powell’s epic sci-fi novel series “Embers of War” as a television show, Variety has learned exclusively.
Gary Graham is attached to adapt the book for the screen, with Breck Eisner onboard to direct. Both will also executive produce along with Greg Silverman and Paul Shapiro of Stampede alongside wiip. Powell will serve as co-executive producer.
“Embers of War” is the first book in the series, which was published in 2018. The second installment, “Fleet of Knives,” followed in 2019, while the third, “Light of Impossible Stars,” came out last year.
In the story, the sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress.
Gary Graham is attached to adapt the book for the screen, with Breck Eisner onboard to direct. Both will also executive produce along with Greg Silverman and Paul Shapiro of Stampede alongside wiip. Powell will serve as co-executive producer.
“Embers of War” is the first book in the series, which was published in 2018. The second installment, “Fleet of Knives,” followed in 2019, while the third, “Light of Impossible Stars,” came out last year.
In the story, the sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress.
- 1/21/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: UK indie The Forge has secured TV adaptation rights to Barbara Taylor Bradford’s bestselling series of books known as The Emma Harte Saga.
The deal covers eight novels, including her latest work, A Man Of Honour, which is a prequel to her famed 1979 book A Woman Of Substance and is due to be published by HarperCollins in November.
A Woman Of Substance, the first in the series, has sold more than 30 million copies. The story follows a servant girl who through talent, true grit, hard graft, ambition, and drive becomes a huge success as a tycoon, founding a business empire and a family dynasty. The novel was previously adapted for TV back in 1984.
The other six books are: Hold The Dream; To Be The Best; Emma’s Secret; Unexpected Blessings; Just Rewards; and Breaking The Rules.
The deal was brokered by Barbara Taylor Bradford’s...
The deal covers eight novels, including her latest work, A Man Of Honour, which is a prequel to her famed 1979 book A Woman Of Substance and is due to be published by HarperCollins in November.
A Woman Of Substance, the first in the series, has sold more than 30 million copies. The story follows a servant girl who through talent, true grit, hard graft, ambition, and drive becomes a huge success as a tycoon, founding a business empire and a family dynasty. The novel was previously adapted for TV back in 1984.
The other six books are: Hold The Dream; To Be The Best; Emma’s Secret; Unexpected Blessings; Just Rewards; and Breaking The Rules.
The deal was brokered by Barbara Taylor Bradford’s...
- 1/13/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Joseph Cross to Direct Movie Adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Novel ‘The Other Passenger’ (Exclusive)
Louise Candlish’s best-selling novel “The Other Passenger” is getting the feature film treatment.
Actor-turned-director Joseph Cross has nabbed film rights and plans to direct the movie adaptation. Cross will also produce the film through his company, Moving Image Productions, alongside Lucas Evans. No actors are attached yet.
Candlish’s book, which is a hit in the U.K., will be published in the United States in July 2021 by Simon & Schuster. The logline for the book reads: “Rocked by a traumatic incident on the commuter train, Jamie travels to work by river bus with his younger neighbor Kit. It’s the lifestyle change he badly needs — until the morning Kit doesn’t show up for the boat and Jamie is met at his stop by the police. Kit’s wife Melia has reported him missing and the police say another passenger saw Kit and Jamie arguing on the boat home the night before.
Actor-turned-director Joseph Cross has nabbed film rights and plans to direct the movie adaptation. Cross will also produce the film through his company, Moving Image Productions, alongside Lucas Evans. No actors are attached yet.
Candlish’s book, which is a hit in the U.K., will be published in the United States in July 2021 by Simon & Schuster. The logline for the book reads: “Rocked by a traumatic incident on the commuter train, Jamie travels to work by river bus with his younger neighbor Kit. It’s the lifestyle change he badly needs — until the morning Kit doesn’t show up for the boat and Jamie is met at his stop by the police. Kit’s wife Melia has reported him missing and the police say another passenger saw Kit and Jamie arguing on the boat home the night before.
- 11/30/2020
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The producers of popular Netflix franchises such as The Princess Switch and Christmas Prince have struck a book-to-film deal with novelist Adele Parks, one the biggest-selling women’s fiction authors in the UK.
Veteran U.S. producer Brad Krevoy’s (Dumb And Dumber) Mpca and BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Aj Riach’s (Set Fire to the Stars) UK-based Engage Productions have entered into the exclusive deal to produce the books, most likely for streamers.
The first book to be adapted will be Parks’ recent Sunday Times bestseller Just My Luck, followed by 2019 novel Lies Lies Lies. Krevoy, Riach and Parks are currently interviewing writers and plan to launch sales for Just My Luck in the UK immediately, followed by the U.S.
More than 3.8 million English-edition copies of Parks’ 20 novels have been sold around the world. The stories, often psychological domestic thrillers, have been translated into 27 languages. The 2020 book Just My Luck,...
Veteran U.S. producer Brad Krevoy’s (Dumb And Dumber) Mpca and BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Aj Riach’s (Set Fire to the Stars) UK-based Engage Productions have entered into the exclusive deal to produce the books, most likely for streamers.
The first book to be adapted will be Parks’ recent Sunday Times bestseller Just My Luck, followed by 2019 novel Lies Lies Lies. Krevoy, Riach and Parks are currently interviewing writers and plan to launch sales for Just My Luck in the UK immediately, followed by the U.S.
More than 3.8 million English-edition copies of Parks’ 20 novels have been sold around the world. The stories, often psychological domestic thrillers, have been translated into 27 languages. The 2020 book Just My Luck,...
- 11/16/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Death In Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures’ adaptation of Louise Candlish’s Sunday Times best-selling real-estate book Our House has been picked up by British broadcaster ITV.
Red Planet announced that it had secured the rights to the novel last year and now Deadline can report that ITV has commissioned a four-part series, which will be penned by EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown.
Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
The show is slated to shoot during summer next year and casting will be announced closer to when cameras get rolling. Red Planet’s joint...
Red Planet announced that it had secured the rights to the novel last year and now Deadline can report that ITV has commissioned a four-part series, which will be penned by EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown.
Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
The show is slated to shoot during summer next year and casting will be announced closer to when cameras get rolling. Red Planet’s joint...
- 11/9/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, Kristen Campo, and Endeavor Content have acquired the television rights for Alice Feeney’s new novel “His & Hers.”
The novel tells the story of Dci Jack Harper and BBC newsreader Anna Andrews, whose paths cross for the first time following their divorce when a woman is found murdered in their hometown. Anna is reluctant to cover the case and Jack becomes suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael will executive produce for Freckle Films, with Campo also serving as executive producer. No network or streaming service is currently attached.
This marks the second time one of Feeney’s novels has been optioned for television. Her debut work, “Sometimes I Lie,” is currently in development at Fox with producers Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros. Television and with Sarah Michelle Gellar attached to star.
“The last...
The novel tells the story of Dci Jack Harper and BBC newsreader Anna Andrews, whose paths cross for the first time following their divorce when a woman is found murdered in their hometown. Anna is reluctant to cover the case and Jack becomes suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael will executive produce for Freckle Films, with Campo also serving as executive producer. No network or streaming service is currently attached.
This marks the second time one of Feeney’s novels has been optioned for television. Her debut work, “Sometimes I Lie,” is currently in development at Fox with producers Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros. Television and with Sarah Michelle Gellar attached to star.
“The last...
- 6/15/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Alice Feeney’s (Sometimes I Lie) latest thriller novel His & Hers is in the works for the small screen. Jessica Chastain’s Freckle Films, Kristen Campo, and Endeavor Content have acquired the TV rights to the book on the heels of its publication this past Tuesday.
His & Hers tells the story of Dci Jack Harper and BBC newsreader Anna Andrews, whose paths cross for the first time following their divorce when a woman is found murdered in their hometown. Anna is reluctant to cover the case and Jack becomes suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation.The novel has already been featured on several “Best of 2020” roundups.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael will executive produce for Freckle Films. Campo will also serve as executive producer.
His & Hers was published in the UK by HarperCollins in May, and will be released in the U.
His & Hers tells the story of Dci Jack Harper and BBC newsreader Anna Andrews, whose paths cross for the first time following their divorce when a woman is found murdered in their hometown. Anna is reluctant to cover the case and Jack becomes suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation.The novel has already been featured on several “Best of 2020” roundups.
Chastain and Kelly Carmichael will executive produce for Freckle Films. Campo will also serve as executive producer.
His & Hers was published in the UK by HarperCollins in May, and will be released in the U.
- 6/15/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Working Title Films, Focus Features, and Compete Fiction Pictures have teamed on the film rights to develop Simon Stephenson’s debut novel Set My Heart to Five, with Baby Driver helmer Edgar Wright attached to direct. The book is slated for release later this year via HarperCollins imprints Hanover Square Press (U.S.) and 4th Estate (UK).
Stephenson will adapt the screenplay from his own manuscript. The story is said to take place in an all-too human 2054 and introduces Jared, an android who undergoes an emotional awakening and embarks on a quest to convince humans that he and his kind should be permitted to feel. It’s a quest, sparked in part by Jared’s introduction to 80’s and 90’s movies, that leads to an unforgettable adventure across the West Coast of America, after he determines to write a film script that will change the world.
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Stephenson will adapt the screenplay from his own manuscript. The story is said to take place in an all-too human 2054 and introduces Jared, an android who undergoes an emotional awakening and embarks on a quest to convince humans that he and his kind should be permitted to feel. It’s a quest, sparked in part by Jared’s introduction to 80’s and 90’s movies, that leads to an unforgettable adventure across the West Coast of America, after he determines to write a film script that will change the world.
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- 3/31/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
World Productions, the ITV Studios-owned production company behind Bodyguard and Line Of Duty, is planning to adapt Nikita Lalwani’s upcoming third novel You People for television.
You People will be published by Penguin Random House’s Viking UK on April 2 and tells the story Pizzeria Vesuvio, and its enigmatic proprietor Tuli, who uses his south London restaurant to provide essential services for those in need.
More from DeadlineU.S. Streamer BritBox To Co-Produce Luke Evans Crime Drama 'The Pembrokeshire Murders''Leaving Neverland' & 'Line Of Duty' Sales House Kew Media Distribution On The Brink Of CollapseITV Adapting Val McDermid's Cold Case Thriller 'Karen Pirie' From 'Harlots' Writer Emer Kenny & 'Bodyguard' Producer World
Lalwani, who has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, said: “You People is a book about the moral choices we face in contemporary Britain, and I can’t think of...
You People will be published by Penguin Random House’s Viking UK on April 2 and tells the story Pizzeria Vesuvio, and its enigmatic proprietor Tuli, who uses his south London restaurant to provide essential services for those in need.
More from DeadlineU.S. Streamer BritBox To Co-Produce Luke Evans Crime Drama 'The Pembrokeshire Murders''Leaving Neverland' & 'Line Of Duty' Sales House Kew Media Distribution On The Brink Of CollapseITV Adapting Val McDermid's Cold Case Thriller 'Karen Pirie' From 'Harlots' Writer Emer Kenny & 'Bodyguard' Producer World
Lalwani, who has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, said: “You People is a book about the moral choices we face in contemporary Britain, and I can’t think of...
- 3/12/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Sister, the UK production house run by Jane Featherstone that has recent credits including HBO and Sky’s Emmy-winning Chernobyl and BBC/Netflix series Giri/Haji, has won rights to Helena Merriman’s buzzy podcast Tunnel 29 in what I understand was a highly competitive situation.
Since launching in November on BBC Radio 4, Tunnel 29 has scored more than 3.5 million downloads. The series chronicles the remarkable true story of a group of students who dug a tunnel from West to East Germany, underneath the Berlin wall, to help people escape the Communist regime.
Hodder & Stoughton pre-empted rights to a book based on the series that creator Merriman is now writing, and screen rights to that are also part of the package acquired by Sister. The producer confirmed the deal but added that at this stage it was too early to say if it would become a TV or film project.
Since launching in November on BBC Radio 4, Tunnel 29 has scored more than 3.5 million downloads. The series chronicles the remarkable true story of a group of students who dug a tunnel from West to East Germany, underneath the Berlin wall, to help people escape the Communist regime.
Hodder & Stoughton pre-empted rights to a book based on the series that creator Merriman is now writing, and screen rights to that are also part of the package acquired by Sister. The producer confirmed the deal but added that at this stage it was too early to say if it would become a TV or film project.
- 2/20/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films has optioned documentary maker Chris Atkins’s prison diaries “A Bit of a Stretch.”
The book covers Atkins’s time in notorious U.K. prison Hmp Wandsworth – one of Europe’s oldest and largest prisons – where he served a five-year sentence for a tax scheme related to funding one of his films.
“A Bit of a Stretch,” which is published today by London-based publisher Atlantic Books, includes a cast of characters ranging from cunning drug dealers to senior officials bent on endless reform, all of which illustrate the prison’s dysfunction, and the wider scale of the U.K.’s prison crisis.
Paula Cuddy, creative director of Eleventh Hour Films, said: “Hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking. This book is a wake-up call, a shocking and surprising insight into modern prison life. I read it in one sitting. With Chris, Eleventh Hour Films is delighted...
The book covers Atkins’s time in notorious U.K. prison Hmp Wandsworth – one of Europe’s oldest and largest prisons – where he served a five-year sentence for a tax scheme related to funding one of his films.
“A Bit of a Stretch,” which is published today by London-based publisher Atlantic Books, includes a cast of characters ranging from cunning drug dealers to senior officials bent on endless reform, all of which illustrate the prison’s dysfunction, and the wider scale of the U.K.’s prison crisis.
Paula Cuddy, creative director of Eleventh Hour Films, said: “Hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking. This book is a wake-up call, a shocking and surprising insight into modern prison life. I read it in one sitting. With Chris, Eleventh Hour Films is delighted...
- 2/6/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Parkes+MacDonald Acquires Novels ‘My Lady Jane’ & ‘People Like Her’ Novels For TV Series Development
Exclusive: Parkes+MacDonald has acquired the television rights to two titles – Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows’ New York Times bestselling novel My Lady Jane, and forthcoming thriller novel People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd, for series development.
My Lady Jane, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Young Adult Books of the Year in 2016, is a comic supernatural tale of true love and high adventure, set in an alternate England in 1553, a country on the verge of civil war. The planned series takes the tale of one of history’s most tragic heroines but reimagines it with an uplifting twist: the damsel in distress saves herself — and then the kingdom.
Gemma Burgess is set to pen the adaptation for My Lady Jane and executive produce with Parkes+MacDonald’s Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes. Parkes+MacDonald’s Maggie Cahill will produce.
People Like Her, by Ellery Lloyd, the pseudonym...
My Lady Jane, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Young Adult Books of the Year in 2016, is a comic supernatural tale of true love and high adventure, set in an alternate England in 1553, a country on the verge of civil war. The planned series takes the tale of one of history’s most tragic heroines but reimagines it with an uplifting twist: the damsel in distress saves herself — and then the kingdom.
Gemma Burgess is set to pen the adaptation for My Lady Jane and executive produce with Parkes+MacDonald’s Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes. Parkes+MacDonald’s Maggie Cahill will produce.
People Like Her, by Ellery Lloyd, the pseudonym...
- 11/21/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mum producer Big Talk and Ray Donovan writer Sean Conway are to adapt Tade Thompson’s African noir novel Making Wolf for television.
The ITV-owned producer and the British writer are working on a drama adaptation of the book, which will be published by Constable in paperback in May 2020.
The book, from Rosewater author Thompson, tells the story of Weston Kogi, a London security guard, who returns to his West African home country and thinks telling people he works as a homicide detective is harmless hyperbole. However, he is kidnapped and forced by two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local hero, Papa Busi. Solving the crime may tip a country on the brink into civil war and cost Weston his life.
Conway is to write the adaptation of the darkly comic, Kafkaesque story. He wrote all six episodes of Chloe Sevigny-fronted Sky drama Hit & Miss,...
The ITV-owned producer and the British writer are working on a drama adaptation of the book, which will be published by Constable in paperback in May 2020.
The book, from Rosewater author Thompson, tells the story of Weston Kogi, a London security guard, who returns to his West African home country and thinks telling people he works as a homicide detective is harmless hyperbole. However, he is kidnapped and forced by two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local hero, Papa Busi. Solving the crime may tip a country on the brink into civil war and cost Weston his life.
Conway is to write the adaptation of the darkly comic, Kafkaesque story. He wrote all six episodes of Chloe Sevigny-fronted Sky drama Hit & Miss,...
- 11/21/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
UK lit and talent agency Curtis Brown Group has signed Scottish publishing label Bhp Comics for film and TV representation.
Bhp’s publisher and founder Sha Nazir recently brought on board author and screenwriter Gary Chudleigh as Bhp’s freelance creative producer. The aim is to take some of the company’s projects from page to screen.
Glasgow-based publishing house Bhp re-positioned itself in 2016 as a book publisher, making graphic novels and art books. Their output includes Frank Quitely’s Drawings+Sketches, Dave Cook and Craig Paton’s Killtopia and Gary Chudleigh and Tanya Roberts’ Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles.
Bhp’s portfolio will be represented at Curtis Brown by Luke Speed, Media Rights Agent for the group.
Chudleigh commented, “Bhp publishes a variety of books that are perfect for the screen. We’ve made fantastic steps taking them into the world of film and TV and having Curtis Brown Group...
Bhp’s publisher and founder Sha Nazir recently brought on board author and screenwriter Gary Chudleigh as Bhp’s freelance creative producer. The aim is to take some of the company’s projects from page to screen.
Glasgow-based publishing house Bhp re-positioned itself in 2016 as a book publisher, making graphic novels and art books. Their output includes Frank Quitely’s Drawings+Sketches, Dave Cook and Craig Paton’s Killtopia and Gary Chudleigh and Tanya Roberts’ Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles.
Bhp’s portfolio will be represented at Curtis Brown by Luke Speed, Media Rights Agent for the group.
Chudleigh commented, “Bhp publishes a variety of books that are perfect for the screen. We’ve made fantastic steps taking them into the world of film and TV and having Curtis Brown Group...
- 8/14/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures is adapting real estate nightmare novel Our House into a TV drama after optioning the Louise Candlish-penned book. The British producer has tapped EastEnders writer Simon Ashdown to write.
Red Planet scored the remake rights from Luke Speed at Curtis Brown Group and said that it had “ambitious plans” for the project.
Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
Published by Penguin Random House’ Berley in the U.S. and Simon & Schuster in the UK, the book has sold over 200,000 copies and was shortlisted for Book of...
Red Planet scored the remake rights from Luke Speed at Curtis Brown Group and said that it had “ambitious plans” for the project.
Our House tells the story of Fi Lawson, who arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
Published by Penguin Random House’ Berley in the U.S. and Simon & Schuster in the UK, the book has sold over 200,000 copies and was shortlisted for Book of...
- 3/25/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox is developing King Of Sting, a drama series based on the true story of the most successful undercover operative in DEA history, who happens to be an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala named Carlos Sagastume. The project hails from studio eOne and Imagine Television.
Written by Dave Kalstein, King Of Sting follows Carlos. Living a double life, he risks his life infiltrating the inner circles of the world’s most dangerous criminals While trying to keep his marriage together and raise his kids in Miami — this is the story of his American Dream.
Kalstein executive produces with Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo and Samie Falvey via Imagine Television. Carlos and Zahra Sagastume co-executive produce, alongside author Damien Lewis and his rep at Curtis Brown Luke Speed.
Lewis’ book, Operation Relentless, described as The Night Manager meets Narcos, had been optioned by Imagine TV as source material. It chronicles the takedown of Viktor Bout,...
Written by Dave Kalstein, King Of Sting follows Carlos. Living a double life, he risks his life infiltrating the inner circles of the world’s most dangerous criminals While trying to keep his marriage together and raise his kids in Miami — this is the story of his American Dream.
Kalstein executive produces with Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo and Samie Falvey via Imagine Television. Carlos and Zahra Sagastume co-executive produce, alongside author Damien Lewis and his rep at Curtis Brown Luke Speed.
Lewis’ book, Operation Relentless, described as The Night Manager meets Narcos, had been optioned by Imagine TV as source material. It chronicles the takedown of Viktor Bout,...
- 11/5/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox Family is moving forward on “The Royal Rabbits of London” as a hybrid-animated live-action feature film and has tapped Will Davies to adapt, Variety has learned exclusively.
The project is based on the 2016 children’s book authored by Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore, who will serve as executive producers.
The story centers on a runt of a country rabbit uncovering an insidious, secret plot and traveling to London to warn the Royal Rabbits of London, who have secretly protected England’s Royal Family for centuries.
Vanessa Morrison and Ralph Millero will oversee for the project for Fox Family. The book deal was brokered by Luke Speed on behalf of Sheila Crowley at the Curtis Brown Group.
Santa Montefiero has authored “The Italian Matchmaker,” “The Affair,” “The House by the Sea,” “The Summer House,” “Secrets of the Lighthouse,” “A Mother’s Love,” and “The Beekeeper’s Daughter.” Her spouse,...
The project is based on the 2016 children’s book authored by Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore, who will serve as executive producers.
The story centers on a runt of a country rabbit uncovering an insidious, secret plot and traveling to London to warn the Royal Rabbits of London, who have secretly protected England’s Royal Family for centuries.
Vanessa Morrison and Ralph Millero will oversee for the project for Fox Family. The book deal was brokered by Luke Speed on behalf of Sheila Crowley at the Curtis Brown Group.
Santa Montefiero has authored “The Italian Matchmaker,” “The Affair,” “The House by the Sea,” “The Summer House,” “Secrets of the Lighthouse,” “A Mother’s Love,” and “The Beekeeper’s Daughter.” Her spouse,...
- 7/31/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Top Of The Lake and Lion producer See Saw Films has picked up TV rights to Lucy Foley’s upcoming murder mystery novel The Hunting Party, I can reveal. The novel was pre-empted by Kimberley Young at HarperFiction in a strong six-figure deal in December 2017 and is slated for hardback publication in 2019.
The plot of the Scottish highlands-set murder mystery unfolds over New Year’s Eve as a tight-knit group of Oxford university alumni celebrate in the impressive wilderness of the Loch Corrin Estate. In the wild terrain the group reminisce, go deer stalking, and hide friendship-destroying secrets; secrets that set a dangerous sequence of events in motion, culminating with a broken body in the snow.
Best known for her sweeping wartime historical fiction, Foley’s debut novel, The Book Of Lost And Found, was acquired at auction by HarperFiction in 2013, and was one of the top selling debuts of the year.
The plot of the Scottish highlands-set murder mystery unfolds over New Year’s Eve as a tight-knit group of Oxford university alumni celebrate in the impressive wilderness of the Loch Corrin Estate. In the wild terrain the group reminisce, go deer stalking, and hide friendship-destroying secrets; secrets that set a dangerous sequence of events in motion, culminating with a broken body in the snow.
Best known for her sweeping wartime historical fiction, Foley’s debut novel, The Book Of Lost And Found, was acquired at auction by HarperFiction in 2013, and was one of the top selling debuts of the year.
- 4/4/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Christie Watson’s The Language of Kindness, a story of acts of compassion in the nursing profession, is to be turned into a television series after Mammoth Screen, the British production company behind dramas including Poldark and Victoria, optioned the rights. I understand the ITV-owned firm has set Rachel Bennette, who adapted Zadie Smith’s Nw for BBC Two, to write.
The book, which comes out May 3 in the UK via publisher Chatto & Windus, is an account of the medical profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness from birth to death. Watson, who was a nurse for twenty years, tells stories including the nursing of a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, a patient’s agonizing heart-lung transplant, and the hair-washing of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive.
The book, which comes out May 3 in the UK via publisher Chatto & Windus, is an account of the medical profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness from birth to death. Watson, who was a nurse for twenty years, tells stories including the nursing of a premature baby who has miraculously made it through the night, a patient’s agonizing heart-lung transplant, and the hair-washing of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive.
- 4/3/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Will Clarke’s Altitude Media and Barry Cunningham’s Chicken House Publishing have secured their first joint deal and acquired film and book rights to Gemma Fowler’s novel Moondust. The companies’ first deal since their partnership was announced at the London Book Fair earlier this year, it was negotiated with film agent Luke Speed and literary agent Sandra Sawicka at Marjacq Scripts. The Altitude-Chicken House tie-up means the two companies can get involved in…...
- 5/11/2015
- Deadline
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