Toronto – Canadian indie producer New Franchise Media is developing The Prodigal Daughter, the sequel to British writer Jeffrey Archer’s best-selling 1982 novel Kane and Abel, as a TV series. Toronto-based rights ownership company New Franchise is searching for a showrunner to adapt the story of the multi-generational family feud from the perspective of Kane and Abel's children. New Franchise, which holds the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to a slate of ten thriller novels by Archer, is also looking for a showrunner for False Impression, an action crime novel originally developed as an action movie.
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- 11/27/2012
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Brian D. Young ("180 Degrees") has been hired to pen a re-write of the film adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's 2005 novel "False Impression" at New Franchise Media says The Hollywood Reporter.
An action-crime novel set on several continents, the story begins with a woman who escaped the 9/11 attack after being fired by her banker boss. She then helps a British lady try to sell a Van Gogh painting while both a mercenary and an FBI agent are on her trail.
New Franchise acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to ten of Archer's novels a while back with Richard Regen working on a script based on "A Matter of Honor" and its follow-up "Honor Among Thieves" for Kennedy/Marshall. Similarly Gale Anne Hurd is developing a TV adaptation of Archer's"The Eleventh Commandment".
An action-crime novel set on several continents, the story begins with a woman who escaped the 9/11 attack after being fired by her banker boss. She then helps a British lady try to sell a Van Gogh painting while both a mercenary and an FBI agent are on her trail.
New Franchise acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to ten of Archer's novels a while back with Richard Regen working on a script based on "A Matter of Honor" and its follow-up "Honor Among Thieves" for Kennedy/Marshall. Similarly Gale Anne Hurd is developing a TV adaptation of Archer's"The Eleventh Commandment".
- 5/9/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Toronto - Canadian indie producer New Franchise Media has tapped Brian D. Young to do a re-write of the Jeffrey Archer novel False Impression, now in the script stage. Toronto-based New Franchise, which last year acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to a slate of ten thriller novels by Archer, and The Kennedy/Marshall Company have also hired Richard Regen to adapt the separate novel, A Matter of Honor, into a multi-film franchise property. False Impression, published by Archer in 2005, is an action-crime novel set on several continents considered ripe for an action thriller. Young
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- 5/8/2012
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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