EXCLUSIVE: Lumanity Productions introduced {that a} function movie adaptation deal has been inked with Christine Mangan for her novel The Continental Affair.
This provides to Mangan’s beforehand optioned debut novel Tangerine initially signed by Crucial Leisure for producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov at Smokehouse with Scarlett Johansson connected to star. With an eye fixed in the direction of worldwide co-production, Lumanity author/director Robert Budreau (Born to be Blue, Stockholm), is ready to put in writing, direct and co-produce the movie.
Revealed by Flatiron, a division of Macmillan, in 2023, The Continental Affair is a glamorous early Nineteen Sixties romantic crime caper about Henri and Louise who fatefully cross paths one morning in Europe. He’s residing in exile after deserting his publish within the French Algerian warfare. Louise is operating from a shadowy previous in London and the chains of gendered expectations. When she steals the cash that Henri is meant to guard, the 2 find yourself in a cat-and-mouse chase throughout continental Europe, from London and Paris to Belgrade and Istanbul with an unlikely bond forming once they share previous crimes and secrets and techniques. And as their prepare hurtles towards its ultimate vacation spot with an murderer on their heels, Henri and Louise should resolve what the long run will maintain and whether or not it includes each other.
“I’m thrilled to deliver Christine’s sensible novel to the large display. I like the suspenseful and psychologically advanced Hitchcockian tones of this European journey. The 2 richly layered lead characters are incredible roles for actors and the story is an evocative and contemporary tackle the romantic crime caper.” says Budreau.
“I’m thrilled to have Robert Budreau on the helm of The Continental Affair‘s adaptation, and to see his enthusiasm and imaginative and prescient for the mission deliver to life the (mis)adventures of Louise and Henri on display,” says Mangan.
This function movie choice deal was brokered by Lumanity’s Budreau with CAA on behalf of Mangan.
Budreau is represented by CAA, and Amotz Zakai, Adam Riback and Chris Davis at Echo Lake Leisure. Mangan is represented by CAA and her publishing agent is Elisabeth Weed at The Guide Group.
