Exclusive: The battle for global chocolate dominance between the likes of Cadbury, Nestle and Hershey is set to melt on to the small screen after Fable Pictures, the British production company run by The Crown and Suffragette producer Faye Ward, optioned Deborah Cadbury’s book Chocolate Wars.
The Sony-backed production company, which was started by Ward in 2016, is looking to turn the book into an international TV drama. It has partnered with The Indian Detective and Transporter writer Smita Bhide and director Tom Harper, who has directed Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne’s The Aeronauts and Fable’s forthcoming Julie Walters-fronted Wild Rose, on the project. Harper, who also worked on BBC drama War & Peace, will exec produce alongside Ward and Hannah Farrell.
The book, originally published in 2010 by Harper Press, tells the story of the invention of the chocolate bar and the battle between three British families – Cadbury,...
The Sony-backed production company, which was started by Ward in 2016, is looking to turn the book into an international TV drama. It has partnered with The Indian Detective and Transporter writer Smita Bhide and director Tom Harper, who has directed Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne’s The Aeronauts and Fable’s forthcoming Julie Walters-fronted Wild Rose, on the project. Harper, who also worked on BBC drama War & Peace, will exec produce alongside Ward and Hannah Farrell.
The book, originally published in 2010 by Harper Press, tells the story of the invention of the chocolate bar and the battle between three British families – Cadbury,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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