EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea‘s Made Up Tales has teamed with producer Monica Saunders-Weinberg to adapt Fiona McIntosh’s novel The Pearl Thief as a characteristic movie. One Life screenwriter Nick Drake is hooked up to jot down.
The Pearl Thief is billed as a sweeping, epic story love and betrayal set between 1939 and the early Sixties. Saunders-Weinberg acquired the rights and took the challenge to 9 Excellent Strangers maker Made Up Tales, which then hooked up Drake to the challenge.
Synopsis reads: “The stakes are excessive on this gripping novel set between the metropolis of Prague and its snowy woodlands on the cusp of World Warfare II, and later in the streets of Paris, London, and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire in 1963.”
The plot will observe Katerina, a museum curator decided to beat the trauma of her previous and avenge the ache inflicted upon these she cherished and people she’ll by no means know. “Lots of the story is ready throughout World Warfare II, however it’s in the end a really redemptive and hopeful story with a lady who was a Holocaust survivor on the heart of it,” Papandrea informed Deadline. “So usually these motion pictures and TV reveals are informed by the male lens of battle, however not often can we get a glimpse into a fancy feminine heroine’s journey.”
Papandrea and her husband Steve Hutensky will produce for Made Up Tales, with Saunders-Weinberg producing for Hana Black Productions.
This marks the second collaboration between Made Up Tales and Saunders-Weinberg following the upcoming characteristic Addition. Saunders-Weinberg is the co-owner and Deputy Chair of Australia-U.S. actual property funding agency The Terrace Tower Group and leads social affect initiative The Progress Mission as a founding accomplice. She can be the lead producer on 44 – The unOfficial unSanctioned Obama Musical alongside Eli Bauman.
“Because the daughter of a Holocaust survivor I really feel compelled to the guarantee tales of heroism, resilience and triumph from this time are informed and reside on,” stated Saunders-Weinberg. “I used to be so extremely moved when studying Fiona McIntosh’s The Pearl Thief that the story couldn’t finish when the guide completed. It’s an honor for me to have the rights to this story and I’m thrilled to be doing this alongside the visionary Bruna Papandrea at Made Up Tales and Nick Drake. It’s the proper match and timing — the world we’re in proper now wants this greater than ever.”
Novelist and historian McIntosh was born within the UK however resides in Australia. Her different novels embrace The Tea Gardens, The French Promise and The Lavender Keeper, and her Detective Jack Hawkworth crime sequence has been optioned for tv.
She stated: “As a author it’s each thrilling and tense without delay when a movie is being manufactured from your novel – will they convey the emotion of the character’s painful journey? To have a titan of the display screen business in Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Tales group, along with the eagerness of Hana Black Manufacturing’s Monica Saunders-Weinberg and her deeply felt dedication to The Pearl Thief, I do know these two robust ladies perceive Katerina. Her story is in excellent arms.”
Drake co-wrote the Anthony Hopkins-starring characteristic One Life alongside Lucinda Coxon and penned the screenplay for Romulus My Father, which starred Eric Bana and Kodi Smit-McPhee. His performs embrace All of the Angels, which ran at London’s Globe Theatre and Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. He was additionally a growth exec within the Nineties working with the likes of Terrence Malick, Anthony Minghella and Michael Apted on movies similar to Hilary and Jackie, The Quiet American and Enigma.
Made Up Tales stays on a cost, with the second season of HBO’s 9 Excellent Strangers at present filming and Marcelle Lunam’s characteristic debut Addition in post-production. It’s also engaged on The Final Anniversary, the Australian sequence for streamer Binge that marks Papandrea’s newest collaboration with Nicola Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Movies and Fifth Season and is ready to enter manufacturing on season 2 of Australia journal drama Strife. In March, we revealed it had offered an untitled thriller bundle written by Natalie Krinsky, starring and produced by Kim Kardashian, and reported Peacock had picked up restricted sequence The Good Daughter, starring Jessica Biel.
Different Made Up Tales reveals of latest years embrace 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 Sluggish Exhale; and genre-bending romantic comedy Wolf Like Me starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad that premiered a second season in October.