EXCLUSIVE: Hera Footage, the indie behind Jodie Comer-starrer The Finish We Begin From and Sky/Starz’ upcoming Mary & George, is growing a TV model of Joanna Quinn’s hit novel The Whalebone Theatre.
The 2022 best-seller is a coming-of-age story set within the shadows of the oncoming World Warfare Two. It tells the story of an ‘unmarriageable woman’, Cristobel, electing to defy conference and discover her personal path by way of life. As Cristabel grows right into a headstrong younger lady, World Warfare II approaches and he or she and her brother turn into British secret brokers on separate missions in Nazi-occupied France.
The guide hit best-seller lists within the UK and U.S. and has offered into 14 additional territories worldwide since its launch. No community is hooked up as of but to the TV model.
Whalebone Theatre is the most recent mission for Hera, the drama indie run by former Channel 4 drama boss Liza Marshall that finds itself in impolite well being. Upcoming tasks embrace Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet for the large display screen, Jodie Comer apocalypse film The Finish We Begin From, which premieres within the UK on Friday, interval drama Mary and George – considered one of Sky’s flagship for the yr – and BBC Three’s Paris Lees adaptation What It Feels Like For A Lady. Previous credit embrace ITV’s Honour and Sky’s Temple.
“We fell in love with Jo’s attractive guide from the second it started,” stated Marshall. “A household epic, a coming-of-age chronicle, a spy thriller and a tangled romance, The Whalebone Theatre is written with such heat, poignancy and humour, it’s no shock that it’s a world bestseller.”
Quinn added that “numerous individuals who have learn the guide have informed me they’d like to see it as a TV collection, and I’m delighted that Hera Footage have acquired the rights.”
