EXCLUSIVE: Heyday Tv has acquired adaptation rights to Gillian McAllister’s novel Simply One other Lacking Particular person.
After what’s been scribed as a “extremely aggressive scenario,” British screenwriter Georgia Pritchett (Succession, Veep) will adapt the story for TV. It’s one other instance of how scorching the book-to-TV market is true now, with Heyday’s father or mother Common Worldwide Studios among the many most lively within the house.
Heyday founder and Academy Award-nominated producer David Heyman, whose credit embrace the Harry Potter movies, Barbie and As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood, will government produce alongside Pritchett, McAllister and Sue Gibbs.
Simply One other Lacking Particular person follows Julia, a detective introduced in to research the high-profile disappearance of a younger girl. Nonetheless, the easy case shortly turns into difficult when a mysterious stranger blackmails Julia into framing a seemingly harmless individual for the crime. Julia is compelled to decide on between attending to the reality of the case, or defending her personal daughter.
The story, billed by critics as a ‘whydunnit,’ revealed in August final yr by Penguin Random Home within the UK and within the U.S. by HarperCollins. Its creator, McAllister has beforehand written novels equivalent to All the things However The Fact, Something You Do Say, No Additional Questions, The Proof In opposition to You, Tips on how to Disappear and That Night time, Incorrect Place Incorrect Time.
“I’m so honoured that the superlative Heyday Tv, Common Worldwide Studios and Georgia Pritchett have teamed as much as work on the variation of Simply One other Lacking Particular person,” she stated. “Actually, typically I feel I’m dreaming.”
Heyday, which is a part of Common Studio Group-owned Common Worldwide Studios, was behind latest Peacock restricted sequence Apples By no means Fall, which has bought to the BBC within the UK. Different credit embrace two seasons of British drama The Seize. It’s presently in improvement on The Push, a novel from Ashley Audrain.
“Gillian McAllister is a unprecedented storyteller, and Simply One other Lacking Particular person is a shining instance of precisely that,” stated Heyman. “It’s a provocative and gripping thriller stuffed with emotionally partaking characters, deliciously difficult relationships and surprising twists. Simply One other Lacking Particular person is a narrative that stays with you lengthy after the ultimate web page and Georgia Pritchett is the proper screenwriter to carry it to life as an exhilarating premium TV sequence.”
Common Worldwide Studios can also be in improvement on Isobel Kim’s sci-fi novel Sublimation, Charlie Watson’s Ethical Accidents and Lucy Fogle’s The Midnight Feast for TV, the latter with Sue Naegle and Ali Krug.
McAllister is represented by UTA and Felicity Blunt & Lucy Morris at The Curtis Brown Group. Pritchett is represented by Lily Williams at Curtis Brown and Dan Erlij at UTA.