Cathy Ace fans will be delighted to learn that the popular author’s latest novel, The Wrong Boy, has been optioned for television by UK indie Free@Last TV (Agatha Raisin). C21 Media reports that, among new projects the company is embarking on is, “The Wrong Boy, a three-part thriller being adapted from Welsh author Cathy Ace’s novel of the same name. It focusses on a small Welsh hamlet disturbed by the discovery of human remains, and […]
Harlan Coban fans (and there are a lot of them) should keep their eyes out for a six-part Netflix mini-series based on The Woods, Coban’s 2007 novel, transformed here from New Jersey to Poland. The switch creates some real magic: Coban’s terrific storytelling reimagined here with a gritty European sensibility. “The Woods from Netflix Poland is really different from The Stranger,” Coban told Variety back in February. “Much more atmospheric and moody and centered on […]
Throttle, the 2012 novella by father-and-son writing team of Stephen King and Joe Jill, has been optioned by HBO. From Deadline Hollywood: HBO Max is in the early development stage of a feature adaptation for the Throttle novella, which was co-written by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, who is the NYT bestselling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather. Leigh Dana Jackson, a co-executive producer on the Netflix series Raising Dion, will write […]
A short story by Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear (Hammered, The Red-Stained Wings) has been acquired by Spyglass Entertainment. The adaptation will be written by the 10 Cloverfield Lane writing team of Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. The story, “Covenant” was originally published in the anthology series Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future. A creepy science fiction story, it was published intact in Slate in 2014. You can read it here. Hieroglyph: Stories […]
In 1926, beloved mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Over the years, that disappearance has created almost as much intrigue as her bestselling novels. Terry Loane’s Agatha and The Truth of Murder is a stunning reimagining of what happened to the author over those days nearly a hundred years ago. With a story as compelling as one Christie herself might have written, this historical murder mystery is charming and enigmatic, with a strong […]
Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lector fans will be chuffed to learn that CBS has a big series in the works that will include some familiar characters. The series, to be called Clarice, is set in 1993: a year after the events in Silence of the Lambs. From Deadline Hollywood: Rebecca Breeds (The Originals, Pretty Little Liars) has been cast as the lead, Clarice Starling, in CBS’ crime drama pilot Clarice, based on the famous Thomas […]
MGM Film Group is planning a feature adaptation of Dark Harvest (TOR) by Normal Partridge, a Bram Stoker Award winner and a novel acclaimed as one of the top books in its publication year of 2006. From Deadline Hollywood: Dark Harvest is set on Halloween in 1963 and centers around the October Boy aka Ol’ Hacksaw Face aka Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. He rises […]
Screenwriter, author, and journalist Grady Hendrix (Horrorstör, We Sold Our Souls) has just sold the film rights to his yet-to-be-released novel, The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires (Quirk). From Deadline Hollywood: In a very competitive situation, Patrick Moran’s recently launched PKM Productions has landed the rights to Grady Hendrix’s upcoming novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires. PKM also has acquired the rights to Robin Rinaldi’s 2014 memoir The Wild Oats […]
The Film Detective is a media streaming network and film archive that restores and distributes classic films. It has announced a weekly program dedicated to Black History Month throughout February on Sling, STIRR, and DistroTV. Every Wednesday at 6 PM EST The Film Detective’s flagship channel will feature a lineup dedicated to Black History Month. Titles from pioneering African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux will receive a spotlight throughout February, including God’s Stepchildren (1938) and Within […]
Lisa Lieberman’s third Cara Walden mystery, The Glass Forest, takes place during the plague-ridden 1957 production of Graham Greene’s political novel, The Quiet American. Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring renowned British actor Michael Redgrave and American war hero Audie Murphy, the film was disowned by Greene and bombed at the box office. The Glass Forest conveys the urgency of Greene’s moral vision, but Lieberman’s story differs in its representation of Vietnam not as the […]
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