Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s upcoming debut novella, “My Monticello,” is set to receive a film adaptation from Chernin Entertainment for Netflix.
The streamer has acquired the rights to Johnson’s novella, which will be published on Oct. 5 in the U.S. through Henry Holt and Co., and via Harvill Secker in the U.K. on Nov. 4.
“My Monticello” is set in the near future, after an ecological disaster leads to societal collapse and bands of white nationalist militias run rampant across the country. A young woman who’s descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings leads a group of refugees to take shelter in Monticello.
A finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize, the work has been called “a badass debut by any measure — nimble, knowing, and electrifying” by Colson Whitehead, “absolutely unforgettable” by Roxane Gay, “stunning” by Charles Yu, and “vital and unlike anything else you’ve known before … a voice...
The streamer has acquired the rights to Johnson’s novella, which will be published on Oct. 5 in the U.S. through Henry Holt and Co., and via Harvill Secker in the U.K. on Nov. 4.
“My Monticello” is set in the near future, after an ecological disaster leads to societal collapse and bands of white nationalist militias run rampant across the country. A young woman who’s descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings leads a group of refugees to take shelter in Monticello.
A finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize, the work has been called “a badass debut by any measure — nimble, knowing, and electrifying” by Colson Whitehead, “absolutely unforgettable” by Roxane Gay, “stunning” by Charles Yu, and “vital and unlike anything else you’ve known before … a voice...
- 9/23/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Colson Whitehead’s novel Sag Harbor is getting the small screen treatment.
Boat Rocker Studios has put in development Pulitzer Prize-winner Whitehead’s novel Sag Harbor as a television series at HBO Max. Daniel “Koa” Beaty is attached to write the pilot. Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions is on board to executive produce.
“Colson is a once-in-a-generation author who has the unique ability to craft beautiful and authentic stories that captivate and transform readers and Sag Harbor is a true expression of that gift,” said Katie O’Connell Marsh, Vice-Chair, Boat Rocker Studios. “We’re thrilled to be working with HBO Max, Cinema Gypsy, and Koa to bring this coming-of-age story to the screen.”
Set in 1985, Sag Harbor tells the story of Benji Cooper, one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. Every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons,...
Boat Rocker Studios has put in development Pulitzer Prize-winner Whitehead’s novel Sag Harbor as a television series at HBO Max. Daniel “Koa” Beaty is attached to write the pilot. Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions is on board to executive produce.
“Colson is a once-in-a-generation author who has the unique ability to craft beautiful and authentic stories that captivate and transform readers and Sag Harbor is a true expression of that gift,” said Katie O’Connell Marsh, Vice-Chair, Boat Rocker Studios. “We’re thrilled to be working with HBO Max, Cinema Gypsy, and Koa to bring this coming-of-age story to the screen.”
Set in 1985, Sag Harbor tells the story of Benji Cooper, one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. Every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons,...
- 8/5/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Picturestart has acquired the rights to Jenny Jackson’s debut novel Pineapple Street to develop as a television series.
Pineapple Street take a deep dive into generation wealth and all its trappings. The Stockton family, an “old money” NYC clan that has enjoyed all the privileges of capitalist success, now faces a schism as their three children set to inherit all that money grapple with what it really means (from the perch of ultra-privileged indulgence).
Chloe Dan and Neil Krishnan are overseeing the project with the search for a scribe underway.
Pam Dorman’s eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House has U.S. publishing rights with additional rights sold in eight countries across the globe.
Jackson is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf where she has worked for nineteen years. Her authors include Chris Bohjalian (The Flight Attendant), Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians), Emily St. John Mandel...
Pineapple Street take a deep dive into generation wealth and all its trappings. The Stockton family, an “old money” NYC clan that has enjoyed all the privileges of capitalist success, now faces a schism as their three children set to inherit all that money grapple with what it really means (from the perch of ultra-privileged indulgence).
Chloe Dan and Neil Krishnan are overseeing the project with the search for a scribe underway.
Pam Dorman’s eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House has U.S. publishing rights with additional rights sold in eight countries across the globe.
Jackson is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf where she has worked for nineteen years. Her authors include Chris Bohjalian (The Flight Attendant), Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians), Emily St. John Mandel...
- 6/24/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Amy Adams’ Bond Group Entertainment and A24 have teamed to develop Anna North’s hot new feminist Western novel Outlawed for television.
The book, published January 5, 2021 by Bloomsbury, became an instant New York Times bestseller, debuting at No. 6 on the Nyt bestseller list.
Outlawed follows a young midwife through her initiation into the notorious Hole in the Wall gang and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.
Adams and Stacy O’Neil will executive produce for Bond Group Entertainment and the company’s Kate Clifford will co-produce.
Outlawed has been met by effusive praise since its debut, landing on multiple most anticipated of 2021 lists. It has been named an Amazon Best of the Month, a Library Reads selection, an Indie Next pick, and is the January selection for both the Belletrist and Reese Witherspoon Book Clubs.
North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous acclaimed novels,...
The book, published January 5, 2021 by Bloomsbury, became an instant New York Times bestseller, debuting at No. 6 on the Nyt bestseller list.
Outlawed follows a young midwife through her initiation into the notorious Hole in the Wall gang and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.
Adams and Stacy O’Neil will executive produce for Bond Group Entertainment and the company’s Kate Clifford will co-produce.
Outlawed has been met by effusive praise since its debut, landing on multiple most anticipated of 2021 lists. It has been named an Amazon Best of the Month, a Library Reads selection, an Indie Next pick, and is the January selection for both the Belletrist and Reese Witherspoon Book Clubs.
North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous acclaimed novels,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“Vox” senior reporter Anna North’s latest novel, “Outlawed,” which was published a couple of weeks ago and is already a New York Times bestseller, has been picked up by A24 and Amy Adams’ Bond Group Entertainment team for a television adaptation.
Adams and her manager Stacy O’Neil will executive produce, and Kate Clifford will co-produce for Bond Group Entertainment.
The alternative, inclusive, feminist spin on the traditionally white, hetero, masculine Western genre has been met with effusive critical acclaim since its debut on Jan. 5. Writer Alicia Lutes proclaimed in a USA Today review that “Outlawed” was made for a series or film adaptation, likening it to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Charles Portis’ “True Grit.”
“Outlawed,” which has been named an Amazon best of the month book, a Library Reads selection, an Indie Next pick, and is the January selection for both the Belletrist and Reese Witherspoon book clubs,...
Adams and her manager Stacy O’Neil will executive produce, and Kate Clifford will co-produce for Bond Group Entertainment.
The alternative, inclusive, feminist spin on the traditionally white, hetero, masculine Western genre has been met with effusive critical acclaim since its debut on Jan. 5. Writer Alicia Lutes proclaimed in a USA Today review that “Outlawed” was made for a series or film adaptation, likening it to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Charles Portis’ “True Grit.”
“Outlawed,” which has been named an Amazon best of the month book, a Library Reads selection, an Indie Next pick, and is the January selection for both the Belletrist and Reese Witherspoon book clubs,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Mónica Marie Zorrilla
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon is developing an adaptation of Janelle Brown’s upcoming thriller Pretty Things with Nicole Kidman set to star and produce and Reed Morano attached to direct and exec produce.
The streamer is developing the series project after winning the rights in a competitive situation with multiple bidders. It will be produced by Kidman’s Blossom Films banner, which struck a first look deal with Amazon in 2018.
It is the latest book adaptation that Amazon and Kidman are partnered on after Amazon Studios acquired the film rights to Samantha Downing’s My Lovely Wife for the Big Little Lies star in February, as revealed by Deadline.
The streamer is developing the series project after winning the rights in a competitive situation with multiple bidders. It will be produced by Kidman’s Blossom Films banner, which struck a first look deal with Amazon in 2018.
It is the latest book adaptation that Amazon and Kidman are partnered on after Amazon Studios acquired the film rights to Samantha Downing’s My Lovely Wife for the Big Little Lies star in February, as revealed by Deadline.
- 4/2/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicole Kidman has signed on for yet another series role.
The “Big Little Lies” star is set to play one of the two leads in an Amazon adaptation of Janelle Brown’s forthcoming novel “Pretty Things.” The streaming giant won the rights to the novel in what sources describe as a highly competitive situation with multiple bidders in the race.
Kidman, who is has a first look deal at Amazon and will produce the project via her Blossom Films banner, was set to appear on TV screens in the near future opposite Hugh Grant in HBO’s “The Undoing,” however the series was pushed to later in the year. She also has “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the adaptation of another Liane Moriarty novel, in the pipeline at Hulu.
“Pretty Things” is hitting book shelves courtesy of Random House on April 21, and centers around two brilliant, damaged women who try to survive...
The “Big Little Lies” star is set to play one of the two leads in an Amazon adaptation of Janelle Brown’s forthcoming novel “Pretty Things.” The streaming giant won the rights to the novel in what sources describe as a highly competitive situation with multiple bidders in the race.
Kidman, who is has a first look deal at Amazon and will produce the project via her Blossom Films banner, was set to appear on TV screens in the near future opposite Hugh Grant in HBO’s “The Undoing,” however the series was pushed to later in the year. She also has “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the adaptation of another Liane Moriarty novel, in the pipeline at Hulu.
“Pretty Things” is hitting book shelves courtesy of Random House on April 21, and centers around two brilliant, damaged women who try to survive...
- 4/2/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Amy Adams’ Bond Group and eOne are to produce a television adaptation of Robert Beatty’s fantasy thriller Willa of the Wood.
The Ya project is the latest development for Adams’ nascent company Bond Group Entertainment, which the Arrival and Vice star established with her manager Stacy O’Neil. It also sees Adams reunite with eOne, with whom she worked with on Sharp Objects, the HBO thriller based on the book by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn.
Willa of the Wood is set in a dark, mysterious forest where its ancient inhabitants, known as the Faeran, don’t trust the destructive, tree-cutting humans. Willa, the clan’s best forager and thief, has been taught to avoid humans at all costs. As Willa’s adventures offer her insight about mankind, she becomes a bridge between two competing worlds, but soon encounters conflict from all sides.
The two companies are to adapt Willa of the Wood,...
The Ya project is the latest development for Adams’ nascent company Bond Group Entertainment, which the Arrival and Vice star established with her manager Stacy O’Neil. It also sees Adams reunite with eOne, with whom she worked with on Sharp Objects, the HBO thriller based on the book by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn.
Willa of the Wood is set in a dark, mysterious forest where its ancient inhabitants, known as the Faeran, don’t trust the destructive, tree-cutting humans. Willa, the clan’s best forager and thief, has been taught to avoid humans at all costs. As Willa’s adventures offer her insight about mankind, she becomes a bridge between two competing worlds, but soon encounters conflict from all sides.
The two companies are to adapt Willa of the Wood,...
- 1/10/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has hired Kristina Moore to its growing Media Rights Division.
Moore joins from The Wylie Agency, where she spent the last ten years as a literary agent specializing in fiction and nonfiction as well as managing authors’ estates.
She joins Anonymous Content’s Media Rights co-heads Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski along with recently hired managers Brooke Ehrlich and Geoffrey Sanford. Moore will be based out of Anonymous Content’s New York office.
“Our goal is to build a team of world class representatives at Anonymous Content,” said division Co-Heads Sanders and Evashevski, “Kristina is an incredibly impressive and accomplished colleague who shares our passion for story and character. With her on board, we are very excited for what 2019 holds and what we can no doubt accomplish with our stellar team of colleagues.”
Prior to joining Wylie, Moore worked in the DC office of the law firm...
Moore joins from The Wylie Agency, where she spent the last ten years as a literary agent specializing in fiction and nonfiction as well as managing authors’ estates.
She joins Anonymous Content’s Media Rights co-heads Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski along with recently hired managers Brooke Ehrlich and Geoffrey Sanford. Moore will be based out of Anonymous Content’s New York office.
“Our goal is to build a team of world class representatives at Anonymous Content,” said division Co-Heads Sanders and Evashevski, “Kristina is an incredibly impressive and accomplished colleague who shares our passion for story and character. With her on board, we are very excited for what 2019 holds and what we can no doubt accomplish with our stellar team of colleagues.”
Prior to joining Wylie, Moore worked in the DC office of the law firm...
- 1/16/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has brought in managers Brooke Ehrlich and Geoffrey Sanford to expand the media rights division formed by partners Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski last year. Together, Ehrlich and Sanford ran their own boutique management firm The Sanford Ehrlich Company. They will operate out of Anonymous Content’s Los Angeles headquarters.
“Brooke and Geoffrey are two of the very best representatives of critically-acclaimed material, as well as brilliant screen and television writers and directors,” Sanders and Evashevski said. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Brooke and Geoff join us. “Over the course of their very successful careers, they have displayed savvy and a keen eye for talent that is unquestionable.”
Sanford and Ehrlich stated, “We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Anonymous Content and work with their incredible clients, and team. We’ve long admired the way they do business and are excited to bring...
“Brooke and Geoffrey are two of the very best representatives of critically-acclaimed material, as well as brilliant screen and television writers and directors,” Sanders and Evashevski said. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Brooke and Geoff join us. “Over the course of their very successful careers, they have displayed savvy and a keen eye for talent that is unquestionable.”
Sanford and Ehrlich stated, “We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Anonymous Content and work with their incredible clients, and team. We’ve long admired the way they do business and are excited to bring...
- 7/9/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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