NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: CONTINENTAL AFFAIR TO BECOME A FILM, ENGLEBY AND CALEDONIAN ROAD TV SERIES

  NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS  

MANGAN'S THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR

Lumanity Productions will make a feature film out of Christine Mangan's THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR to be helmed by Robert Budreau. It is a glamorous early 1960s romantic crime caper about Henri and Louise who fatefully cross paths one morning in

Continental Affair will become a film

Europe. He is living in exile after deserting his post in the French Algerian war. Louise is running from a shadowy past in London and the chains of gendered expectations. When she steals the money that Henri is supposed to protect, the two end up in a cat-and-mouse chase across continental Europe, from London and Paris to Belgrade and Istanbul with an unlikely bond forming when they share past crimes and secrets. And as their train hurtles toward its final destination with an assassin on their heels, Henri and Louise must decide what the future will hold and whether it involves one another. 

 

Engleby will become a series

SEBASTIAN FAULK'S ENGLEBY

Scotland's Freedom Scripted will turn Sebastian Faulk's novel ENGLEBY into a six part television series. Set between London and Cambridge, the six-part drama is a quintessential British murder mystery meets acute psychological character study, with a healthy dose of dark wit. The series follows enigmatic outsider Mike Engleby (to be played by Noah Jupe who is also starring in Michael Douglas' Franklin historical series) as he graduates from 1970s campus life to 1980s Fleet Street and beyond – haunted all the while by an unsolved mystery involving a friend and fellow student during their university days. 

 

 

O'HAGAN'S CALEDONIAN ROAD

Caledonian Road will become a series

Fremantle and Sinestra will do a television adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's recently published CALEDONIAN ROAD a biting portrait of modern British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising, and declining, fortunes. The novel follows Campbell Flynn – an art historian and celebrity intellectual, entering the empire of middle age, and his inexorable downfall when he meets Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes, secrets and scandals will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all that his privilege really involves.