TORONTO -- Canadian producer Screen Door has acquired the film rights to the Lori Lansens novel "Rush Home Road", and plans to develop the project as a Canadian TV miniseries.
Whoopi Goldberg's production company first picked up the film rights to the Canadian novel soon after its publication in 2003.
Those rights became available to Toronto-based Screen Door when Goldberg's shingle decided not to renew its option a second time.
Screen Door on Tuesday said it is talking to an unnamed Canadian broadcaster about developing a miniseries around the novel's two main characters, an elderly black woman and a young mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother in a Southern Ontario trailer park.
Past miniseries produced by Screen Door and sold internationally include "Avro Arrow", "Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion" and the upcoming "Everest", a mountaineering drama starring Jason Priestley and William Shatner, to air on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Whoopi Goldberg's production company first picked up the film rights to the Canadian novel soon after its publication in 2003.
Those rights became available to Toronto-based Screen Door when Goldberg's shingle decided not to renew its option a second time.
Screen Door on Tuesday said it is talking to an unnamed Canadian broadcaster about developing a miniseries around the novel's two main characters, an elderly black woman and a young mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother in a Southern Ontario trailer park.
Past miniseries produced by Screen Door and sold internationally include "Avro Arrow", "Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion" and the upcoming "Everest", a mountaineering drama starring Jason Priestley and William Shatner, to air on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
- 9/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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