NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: MICHAEL THOMPSON'S HOW TO BE REMEMBERED TO BECOME A FILM, CLAIRE MCGOWAN'S WHAT YOU DID A BBC SERIES

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HOW TO BE REMEMBERED

Two new adaptations for you today, starting with J. Mills Goodloe who will adapt Michael Thompson's novel HOW TO BE REMEMBERED into a movie for

How to be remembered will become a film

MCR. The novel follows Tommy Llewellyn, who on the morning of his first birthday sees his existence wiped clean from the universe – his parents don’t remember him and all evidence of his life is gone. And yet, he remains. Every year on Tommy’s birthday, the world around him forgets he exists. He grows up enduring his own annual reset, becoming a stranger to the people in his life year after year. That is until something extraordinary happens: Tommy Llewellyn falls in love. Determined to carve out a life that can withstand the reset, Tommy must find a way to rebuild and maintain his great love through whatever means necessary.

WHAT YOU DID SERIES AT BBC

What you did might become a series at BBC

BBC is meanwhile looking to make a new television thriller series out of Claire McGowan's WHAT YOU DID, the third of her novel they bought (previous two never went into production). From the prolific Northern Irish thriller writer McGowan, the book charts the reunion of six university friends together again after 20 years apart. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again, as she staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatized, she claims that she has been assaulted – by Ali’s husband, Mike.