EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea‘s Made Up Stories has teamed with producer Monica Saunders-Weinberg to adapt Fiona McIntosh’s album The Pearl Thief as a attribute movie. One Past screenwriter Nick Drake is connected to jot down.
The Pearl Thief is billed as a sweeping, epic tale love and betrayal poised between 1939 and the early Nineteen Sixties. Saunders-Weinberg received the rights and took the mission to 9 Very best Strangers maker Made Up Tales, which next hooked up Drake to the mission.
Synopsis reads: “The stakes are high in this gripping novel set between the city of Prague and its snowy woodlands on the cusp of World War II, and later in the streets of Paris, London, and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire in 1963.”
The plot will practice Katerina, a museum curator ambitious to conquer the shock of her occasion and avenge the ache inflicted upon the ones she beloved and the ones she’ll by no means know. “A lot of the story is set during World War II, but it is ultimately a very redemptive and hopeful story with a woman who was a Holocaust survivor at the center of it,” Papandrea informed Time limit. “So often these movies and TV shows are told through the male lens of war, but rarely do we get a glimpse into a complex female heroine’s journey.”
Papandrea and her husband Steve Hutensky will build for Made Up Tales, with Saunders-Weinberg generating for Hana Dim Productions.
This marks the second one collaboration between Made Up Tales and Saunders-Weinberg following the after attribute Addition. Saunders-Weinberg is the co-owner and Deputy Chair of Australia-U.S. actual property funding company The Terrace Tower Staff and leads social have an effect on initiative The Expansion Undertaking as a inauguration spouse. She could also be the top manufacturer on 44 – The unOfficial unSanctioned Obama Musical along Eli Bauman.
“As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor I feel compelled to the ensure stories of heroism, resilience and triumph from this time are told and live on,” stated Saunders-Weinberg. “I was so incredibly moved when reading Fiona McIntosh’s The Pearl Thief that the story could not end when the book finished. It’s an honor for me to have the rights to this story and I am thrilled to be doing this alongside the visionary Bruna Papandrea at Made Up Stories and Nick Drake. It’s the perfect fit and timing — the world we are in right now needs this more than ever.”
Novelist and historian McIntosh was once born in the United Kingdom however is living in Australia. Her alternative novels come with The Tea Subjects, The French Commitment and The Lavender Keeper, and her Detective Jack Hawkworth crime form has been optioned for tv.
She stated: “As a writer it’s both thrilling and tense at once when a film is being made of your novel – will they convey the emotion of the character’s painful journey? To have a titan of the screen industry in Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories team, together with the passion of Hana Black Production’s Monica Saunders-Weinberg and her deeply felt commitment to The Pearl Thief, I know these two strong women understand Katerina. Her story is in very good hands.”
Drake co-wrote the Anthony Hopkins-starring attribute One Past along Lucinda Coxon and penned the screenplay for Romulus My Father, which starred Eric Bana and Kodi Smit-McPhee. His performs come with All of the Angels, which ran at London’s Globe Theatre and Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. He was once additionally a building exec within the Nineteen Nineties running with the likes of Terrence Malick, Anthony Minghella and Michael Apted on movies reminiscent of Hilary and Jackie, The Calm American and Enigma.
Made Up Tales rest on a price, with the second one season of HBO’s 9 Very best Strangers lately filming and Marcelle Lunam’s attribute debut Addition in post-production. Additionally it is running on The Terminating Yearly, the Australian form for streamer Binge that marks Papandrea’s original collaboration with Nicola Kidman and In line with Saari’s Blossom Movies and 5th Season and is about to proceed into manufacturing on season 2 of Australia novel drama Strife. In March, we clear it had offered an untitled mystery package deal written by means of Natalie Krinsky, starring and produced by means of Kim Kardashian, and reported Peacock had picked up restricted form The Just right Daughter, starring Jessica Biel.
Alternative Made Up Tales displays of new years come with Netflix’s Items of Her, starring Toni Collette and Anatomy of a Scandal starring Sienna Miller and Michelle Dockery; Roar for Apple TV+, starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever and Alison Brie; Spectrum Originals ladies’s basketball drama Lengthy Gradual Exhale; and genre-bending romantic comedy Wolf Like Me starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad that premiered a 2nd season in October.
