The hunt for e book IP continues to drive enterprise.
Following what’s been described as a “extremely aggressive state of affairs,” Common Worldwide Studios (UIS) has purchased the rights to creator Lucy Foley‘s newest novel, The Midnight Feast.
The Common Studio Group (USG)-owned UIS will develop a TV collection adaptation of e book, which publishes on June 6 and was among the many highest profile titles on provide on the latest London Ebook Truthful.
Foley will probably be an govt producer alongside former HBO Leisure boss Sue Naegle and Ali Krug, who took over Annapurna’s TV growth slate when Naegle exited her Chief Content material Officer position at Meg Ellison’s studio again in 2022.
USG’s Inventive Acquisitions and IP Administration performed a major position within the Midnight Feast acquisition, we hear. A number of sources within the literary IP world have famous the elevated U.S. presence on the London Ebook Truthful final week, with Foley’s UK and U.S. brokers, Curtis Brown and UTA, amongst these to have held social occasions. WME was additionally on the town in a major manner.
Billed as being “laced with ambiance and a chilling fringe of folklore,” The Midnight Feast is a locked door homicide thriller. Longline reads: “Company collect for the opening of The Manor Resort, the brand new jewel on the Dorset shoreline. The champagne is flowing, the visitor record glowing, the solar setting on an unforgettable summer time solstice. However underneath the cloak of celebration, one thing darkish is stirring. The Manor has a secret historical past; constructed within the shadows of an historical wooden. Now previous associates and enemies are creeping out of the shadows. And so they’ll quickly uncover what different lethal secrets and techniques come out at night time.”
Foley was a fiction editor for a number of years within the publishing trade earlier than she wrote the 2015 bestselling novel The Ebook of Misplaced and Discovered and has since penned the likes of New York Occasions primary bestseller The Paris Residence and The Visitor Listing.
“I’m thrilled that the good Common Worldwide Studios staff will probably be creating The Midnight Feast,” she stated. “I knew from the primary assembly that they cherished and utterly understood the e book and every thing I used to be making an attempt to do in writing it. I’m so excited by their massively inventive imaginative and prescient for adaptation and being a part of the method – watch this house.”
“We’ve at all times admired Lucy and her potential to inform a narrative that’s grounded by specificity of place however resonates on a worldwide stage,” stated Tesha Crawford, SVP, International Scripted Sequence, at UIS. “From the opening of The Midnight Feast, her characters, ambiance and thriller all jumped off the pages. We didn’t want to attend for the discharge to know that this good novel has all of the elements for an unbelievable tv collection. We will’t wait to carry this venture to life.”
Foley is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown and Jason Richman at UTA.
