Exclusive: Catherine The Great and Des producer New Pictures has signed up two of the creative talents behind FX’s Emmy-winning limited drama Fosse/Verdon to adapt Kate Summerscale’s novel The Haunting of Alma Fielding into a TV series.
Fosse/Verdon writer Charlotte Stoudt and director Minkie Spiro, who has also helmed The Plot Against America and Downton Abbey, have set to work in translating the true ghost story for the screen.
In 1938, young housewife Alma Fielding begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Objects shatter, vanish, or take flight, assaulting Fielding and her family. Reporters see it with their own eyes. It is impossible but it is happening. And Alma seems to be at the center.
Jewish-Hungarian refugee Nandor Fodor investigates the events, determined to figure out if it is a hoax, a ghost, or Alma’s unconscious mind wrestling with a buried secret in the...
Fosse/Verdon writer Charlotte Stoudt and director Minkie Spiro, who has also helmed The Plot Against America and Downton Abbey, have set to work in translating the true ghost story for the screen.
In 1938, young housewife Alma Fielding begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Objects shatter, vanish, or take flight, assaulting Fielding and her family. Reporters see it with their own eyes. It is impossible but it is happening. And Alma seems to be at the center.
Jewish-Hungarian refugee Nandor Fodor investigates the events, determined to figure out if it is a hoax, a ghost, or Alma’s unconscious mind wrestling with a buried secret in the...
- 2/15/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The Haunting of Alma Fielding, Kate Summerscale’s Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted novel, is to be adapted for television by New Pictures with writer Charlotte Stoudt (Fosse/Verdon) and director Minkie Spiro (The Plot Against America, Fosse/Verdon).
Stoudt and Spiro are currently working together on an eight-part psychological thriller, Pieces of Her: an adaptation of the New York Times bestseller for Netflix, starring Toni Collette. Stoudt’s previous writing work includes Fosse/Verdon, Homeland and House of Cards. Spiro has directed The Plot Against America, Fosse/Verdon and Dead to Me.
The Haunting of Alma Fielding is a true ghost story and an unconventional love story. In 1938, Alma Fielding, an ordinary ...
Stoudt and Spiro are currently working together on an eight-part psychological thriller, Pieces of Her: an adaptation of the New York Times bestseller for Netflix, starring Toni Collette. Stoudt’s previous writing work includes Fosse/Verdon, Homeland and House of Cards. Spiro has directed The Plot Against America, Fosse/Verdon and Dead to Me.
The Haunting of Alma Fielding is a true ghost story and an unconventional love story. In 1938, Alma Fielding, an ordinary ...
- 2/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Haunting of Alma Fielding, Kate Summerscale’s Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted novel, is to be adapted for television by New Pictures with writer Charlotte Stoudt (Fosse/Verdon) and director Minkie Spiro (The Plot Against America, Fosse/Verdon).
Stoudt and Spiro are currently working together on an eight-part psychological thriller, Pieces of Her: an adaptation of the New York Times bestseller for Netflix, starring Toni Collette. Stoudt’s previous writing work includes Fosse/Verdon, Homeland and House of Cards. Spiro has directed The Plot Against America, Fosse/Verdon and Dead to Me.
The Haunting of Alma Fielding is a true ghost story and an unconventional love story. In 1938, Alma Fielding, an ordinary ...
Stoudt and Spiro are currently working together on an eight-part psychological thriller, Pieces of Her: an adaptation of the New York Times bestseller for Netflix, starring Toni Collette. Stoudt’s previous writing work includes Fosse/Verdon, Homeland and House of Cards. Spiro has directed The Plot Against America, Fosse/Verdon and Dead to Me.
The Haunting of Alma Fielding is a true ghost story and an unconventional love story. In 1938, Alma Fielding, an ordinary ...
- 2/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Paddy Considine is to star in two new The Suspicions of Mr Whicher films.
ITV has ordered two new original TV movies, based on the book by Kate Summerscale.
Considine will reprise the role of detective Whicher in Beyond the Pale and 'Til Death Do Us Part - each two hours in length.
The first film will see Whicher investigate threats made against the son of a powerful politician, while the second sees a case of divorce and adultery spin out into something far more complex.
Award-winning playwright Helen Edmundson will script both films, which follow 2011's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and its 2013 follow-up The Murder In Angel Lane.
"We're delighted with the new Whicher scripts from Helen Edmundson," said ITV's Director of Drama, Steve November.
"Paddy Considine is an extraordinary actor who brilliantly portrays Whicher's complexities, depth and vulnerability."
Speaking to Digital Spy last year, Considine confirmed that...
ITV has ordered two new original TV movies, based on the book by Kate Summerscale.
Considine will reprise the role of detective Whicher in Beyond the Pale and 'Til Death Do Us Part - each two hours in length.
The first film will see Whicher investigate threats made against the son of a powerful politician, while the second sees a case of divorce and adultery spin out into something far more complex.
Award-winning playwright Helen Edmundson will script both films, which follow 2011's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and its 2013 follow-up The Murder In Angel Lane.
"We're delighted with the new Whicher scripts from Helen Edmundson," said ITV's Director of Drama, Steve November.
"Paddy Considine is an extraordinary actor who brilliantly portrays Whicher's complexities, depth and vulnerability."
Speaking to Digital Spy last year, Considine confirmed that...
- 3/26/2014
- Digital Spy
Following the success of one-off Victorian drama The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, aka The Murder at Road Hill House, shown on British television in 2011, a follow up was commissioned. Again it stars Paddy Considine as the title character and again it’s based on a book by Kate Summerscale, but unlike the infamous story of Constance Kent, The Murder in Angel Lane is entirely fictitious. Angel Lane is set several years after the 1860 case that ruined Jack Whicher’s career in the Police force. Whicher is now working as an occasional private detective and living in modest, if not squalid conditions. He is a different character now, a paranoid, broken man, disheveled and ignored.
Lucinda Wright thankfully returns as costume designer having done such a spectacular job first time around (read our original interview Here). The tone and palette is murkier, with London itself the primary backdrop rather than the rural South West.
Lucinda Wright thankfully returns as costume designer having done such a spectacular job first time around (read our original interview Here). The tone and palette is murkier, with London itself the primary backdrop rather than the rural South West.
- 7/1/2013
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine Reteam For ‘Whicher II’ Hyde Park On Hudson co-star Olivia Colman will join Paddy Considine in ITV’s The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher II. The Hat Trick Productions drama is based on the real-life 19th century Metropolitan Police detective. The two-hour film is a follow-up to the 2011 drama that was based on the book by Kate Summerscale. Colman plays a woman who hires Considine’s Whicher to investigate the murder of her niece. Colman recently won a British Independent Film Award for best supporting actress in Hyde Park On Hudson. She also won the Bifa last year as best actress for Tyrannosaur which was directed by Considine. Shooting is currently underway on the story written by Neil McKay (Appropriate Adult) and directed by Christopher Menaul. Mark Redhead is exec producer, Rob Bullock is producer. Xbox To Premiere Brit Indie ‘Pulp’ In a first of its kind deal,...
- 1/15/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
ITV has ordered a second edition of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. A follow-up to the 2011 crime drama will see Paddy Considine reprise his role as Jonathan 'Jack' Whicher - the real-life pioneer who worked in the newly-established Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police during the 19th Century. "We're delighted Paddy Considine has agreed to reprise his role as Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day," said ITV Drama's Laura Mackie. "[Writer] Neil McKay has taken the character and produced a gripping and compelling story." The first Suspicions of Mr Whicher was based on the best-selling book by Kate Summerscale, with the author giving her blessing to the new sequel. Hat Trick's Head of Drama Mark Redhead explained: (more)...
- 12/6/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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Lucinda Wright talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her contribution to ITV’s adaptation of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher starring Paddy Considine. The date: 1860. Place: South West England. Costumes: an elegant recreation of the revolutionary Victorian age.
Although probably known for costume designing the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who, Wright has worked in television since the late 1990s. She has also covered period costume before, principally with Henry VIII (2003) and Georgian era Fanny Hill (2007). The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is based on Kate Summerscale’s prize winning book about real life Scotland Yard detective Jack Whicher’s (Considine) investigation of an infant murder and his controversial conclusion that lead to national outcry. It is sober yet gripping drama.
Clothes on Film, Chris: How did you go about researching the period?...
Lucinda Wright talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her contribution to ITV’s adaptation of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher starring Paddy Considine. The date: 1860. Place: South West England. Costumes: an elegant recreation of the revolutionary Victorian age.
Although probably known for costume designing the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who, Wright has worked in television since the late 1990s. She has also covered period costume before, principally with Henry VIII (2003) and Georgian era Fanny Hill (2007). The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is based on Kate Summerscale’s prize winning book about real life Scotland Yard detective Jack Whicher’s (Considine) investigation of an infant murder and his controversial conclusion that lead to national outcry. It is sober yet gripping drama.
Clothes on Film, Chris: How did you go about researching the period?...
- 6/3/2011
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
ITV's The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher and Case Sensitive are expected to land second series, it has been revealed. According to Broadcast, the detective shows have already begun work on further episodes, although the deal has not been fully greenlit yet. Earlier today, it was revealed that Brenda Blethyn's ITV1 crime drama Vera would be returning for a second run. Kate Summerscale adaptation Whicher, which starred Paddy Considine and Peter Capaldi, picked up over 6 million (more)...
- 5/19/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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