EXCLUSIVE: Boomerang co-creator Ben Cory Jones has acquired the purchasing rights to Brianna Peppins‘ YA novel Briarcliff Prep for sequence improvement.
The venture can be co-written by Jones and Peppins. Each will produce alongside Domesticate Leisure Companions Sean Mik’ael Butler and Patrick Strøm.
Briarcliff Prep is a coming-of-age story set in an area the place the expectations of gender and race collide, familial duties are examined, and sisterhood could also be a saving grace.
Jones is a author, director and producer finest recognized for co-producing HBO’s Issa Rae sequence Insecure and co-creating the BET sequence Boomerang with Lena Waithe. He has additionally written on reveals equivalent to Video games Individuals Play (BET), Underground (OWN) and Ben Watkins’ Hand of God (Amazon). He directed his first characteristic Black Spartans in 2022. Jones additionally produced the Broad Inexperienced Photos comedy Step Sisters, directed by Drumline‘s Charles Stone III, which was launched as a Netflix authentic.
Peppins is the creator of younger grownup up to date books, together with Briarcliff Prep and As Lengthy as We’re Collectively. She is a graduate of Spelman School with a B.A. in Psychology.
Jones is repped by IAG and Domesticate Leisure Companions. Peppins is repped by Echo Lake Leisure and Alexander, Lawrence, Frumes & Labowitz, LLP.
