Exclusive: Chris Addison, who exec produced and directed on HBO’s Veep and is one of the creators of FX and Sky’s Breeders, is to adapt Caimh McDonnell’s The Dublin Trilogy series of novels for television.
Addison, who also directed Anne Hathaway comedy The Hustle, is reteaming with Avalon, the production company behind Breeders as well as HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and Showtime’s Flatbush Misdemeanors, which acquired the rights to the books.
The series, which is published by McFori Ink and has sold over 500,000 copies, comprises five books: A Man With One of Those Faces, The Day That Never Comes and Last Orders, prequel Angels in the Moonlight and its sequel Dead Man’s Sins, which will be published June 15.
The books, which are set in Dublin, follow the adventures of an unlikely crime-solving trio.
A Man with One of Those Faces tells...
Addison, who also directed Anne Hathaway comedy The Hustle, is reteaming with Avalon, the production company behind Breeders as well as HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and Showtime’s Flatbush Misdemeanors, which acquired the rights to the books.
The series, which is published by McFori Ink and has sold over 500,000 copies, comprises five books: A Man With One of Those Faces, The Day That Never Comes and Last Orders, prequel Angels in the Moonlight and its sequel Dead Man’s Sins, which will be published June 15.
The books, which are set in Dublin, follow the adventures of an unlikely crime-solving trio.
A Man with One of Those Faces tells...
- 6/9/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Endemol Shine India has optioned Damyanti Biswas’s bestselling Indian crime novel You Beneath Your Skin to develop as a multi-part drama series, with all proceeds from the option going towards social enterprises in the author’s native New Delhi.
Set in contemporary New Delhi, the multi-strand narrative concerns an Indian-American single mother and her autistic teenage son, whose comfortable middle-class lives are turned upside down by a police investigation; a crime spree of slum women found stuffed in trash bags, faces and bodies disfigured by acid. Although a work of fiction, the novel tackles endemic problems in India: violence against women, slum poverty, and police corruption.
Abhishek Rege, CEO, Endemol Shine India, said, “You Beneath Your Skin is a is a crime thriller, layered with issues of poverty, misogyny and corruption. Taking a leaf out of the vast legacy of phenomenal women writers in the crime thriller genre...
Set in contemporary New Delhi, the multi-strand narrative concerns an Indian-American single mother and her autistic teenage son, whose comfortable middle-class lives are turned upside down by a police investigation; a crime spree of slum women found stuffed in trash bags, faces and bodies disfigured by acid. Although a work of fiction, the novel tackles endemic problems in India: violence against women, slum poverty, and police corruption.
Abhishek Rege, CEO, Endemol Shine India, said, “You Beneath Your Skin is a is a crime thriller, layered with issues of poverty, misogyny and corruption. Taking a leaf out of the vast legacy of phenomenal women writers in the crime thriller genre...
- 6/23/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t’ With Her Mind, the buzzy sci-fi novel, is set to be adapted for television after Secret Hideout nabbed the rights in a competitive situation.
Deadline understands that Alex Kurtzman’s company, which is behind the Star Trek franchise and has an overall deal at CBS Television Studios, is in the early stages of development after scoring the book option.
The book is written by Jackson Ford, the pseudonym for author Rob Boffard, a South African author living in Vancouver was published by Orbit in 2019.
It tells the story of a woman with telekinetic abilities who works as a secret government operative and was described by author Maria Lewis as “Alias meets X-Men in a grimy La setting”.
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t’ With Her Mind follows Teagan Frost, who is having a hard time keeping it together. She’s got...
Deadline understands that Alex Kurtzman’s company, which is behind the Star Trek franchise and has an overall deal at CBS Television Studios, is in the early stages of development after scoring the book option.
The book is written by Jackson Ford, the pseudonym for author Rob Boffard, a South African author living in Vancouver was published by Orbit in 2019.
It tells the story of a woman with telekinetic abilities who works as a secret government operative and was described by author Maria Lewis as “Alias meets X-Men in a grimy La setting”.
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t’ With Her Mind follows Teagan Frost, who is having a hard time keeping it together. She’s got...
- 4/28/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Whistle, the youth-focused distributor and creator of sports content, has acquired New Form, the Ron Howard and Brian Grazer-backed media company, both companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The deal comes after Whistle raised $28 million in Series D funding last year, including an investment from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo. Both companies have made several new content deals recently, with Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media creating a new documentary series for Whistle and New Form adding the Sofia Vergara-produced “365 Days of Love” documentary series to Facebook Watch. The merger allows Whistle, which says it has an audience of 518 million subscribers and followers, to double down on its bet on original series and scale its business.
“It was a great match from the start. Both companies excel at discovering emerging narratives and storytelling,” John West, Whistle’s CEO and founder, said in a statement.
The deal comes after Whistle raised $28 million in Series D funding last year, including an investment from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo. Both companies have made several new content deals recently, with Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media creating a new documentary series for Whistle and New Form adding the Sofia Vergara-produced “365 Days of Love” documentary series to Facebook Watch. The merger allows Whistle, which says it has an audience of 518 million subscribers and followers, to double down on its bet on original series and scale its business.
“It was a great match from the start. Both companies excel at discovering emerging narratives and storytelling,” John West, Whistle’s CEO and founder, said in a statement.
- 1/23/2019
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
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