EXCLUSIVE: Julie Plec‘s My So-Known as Firm and Common Tv have acquired the rights to Regina Black’s debut novel The Artwork of Scandal.
The Artwork of Scandal tells the story of Rachel Abbott who, on the evening of her husband Matt’s fortieth birthday, receives an express textual content from him that she rapidly realizes was meant for one more lady. Divorce is inevitable, and Rachel is set to not go away her thirteen-year marriage empty handed.
Plec is connected as govt producer alongside Plec’s accomplice at MSCC, Emily Cummins. Black will function a consulting producer on the challenge.
“I really feel like I’ve been ready for a e book like this to return round for years. Regina actually knocked this out of the park, permitting me to bask in my favourite sort of tv: an attractive, sensible, multi-generational, multi-cultural cleaning soap,” Plec mentioned in an announcement.
Right here’s a synopsis for The Artwork of Scandal:
On the evening of her husband Matt’s fortieth birthday, Rachel Abbott receives an express textual content from her husband that she rapidly realizes was meant for one more lady. Divorce is inevitable, and Rachel is set to not go away her thirteen-year marriage empty handed.
In the meantime, Matt, a rising star mayor along with his eye on the White Home, can’t afford a messy break up in the midst of his reelection marketing campaign. They strike a deal: Rachel will get a million {dollars} and their lavish home within the rich DC suburb of Oasis Springs, so long as she retains taking part in the perfect Black trophy spouse till the election.
Then Rachel meets Nathan Vasquez and their connection makes Rachel overlook about being the proper politician’s spouse. As Rachel reawakens Nathan’s long-dormant inventive aspirations, their attraction turns into inconceivable to withstand. However secrets and techniques are laborious to maintain in a city like Oasis Springs, and Nathan has a number of of his personal. With the chance of scandal looming and their hearts on the road, they’ll must determine whether or not the potential for shedding all the things is value taking an opportunity on love.
Black is a former civil litigator and present regulation college administrator, who has at all times been passionate concerning the depiction of Black ladies in well-liked tradition. She is repped by UTA and Dystel Goderich & Bourret.
Plec and her manufacturing banner, My So-Known as Firm, are underneath an total deal at Common Tv. Her present initiatives underneath the deal embrace We Had been Liars, which was picked as much as sequence at Prime Video, with Plec as co-creator, author and govt producer. She can also be the manager producer of Ladies on the Bus for Max. She is repped by Administration 360 and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan.
USG’s Inventive Acquisitions and IP Administration staff, led by Jordan Moblo, was helped safe the rights to the novel. UTA brokered the deal.
