THE PERFECT COUPLE SERIES
CASTS NICOLE KIDMAN, JACK REYNOR AND OTHERS
After working together on HBO's The Undoing, Nicole Kidman and Susanne Bier will work together on THE PERFECT COUPLE series at Netflix. Jack Reynor, Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Eve Hewson are also in talks. Based on Elin Hilderbrand's novel the six-episode murder
mystery follows Nantucket native Celeste Otis, who on the Fourth of July, is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family in the area. But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the #weddingoftheyear, everyone at the party is suddenly a suspect.
mystery follows Nantucket native Celeste Otis, who on the Fourth of July, is about to marry the perfect man, who just so happens to be from the wealthiest family in the area. But when a body is discovered floating in the harbor on the morning of what was to be the #weddingoftheyear, everyone at the party is suddenly a suspect. NEW SERIES ADAPTATIONS
OF TWO DOUGLAS STUART BOOKS
Fashion designer slash writer Douglas Stuart has not one, but two of his books currently being turned into TV series. His 2020 Booker Prize
winner SHUGGIE BAIN is being turned into a series over at BBC. It tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow. Sold in almost 40 countries, it is a love story between mother Agnes Bain and her gay son Shuggie.
It details Agnes' descent into despair and her struggles with alcoholism following the breakdown of her marriage.
While most of her children are driven away by her deterioration, Shuggie remains to help while suffering huge personal problems of his own. The novel was inspired by Stuart's own childhood in Glasgow during the Margaret Thatcher era after father left his mother.
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| Shuggie Bain is being adapted by BBC |
HIS OTHER BOOK YOUNG MUNGO
is also being adapted for small screens by
A24 studio following the dangerous first love of two working class men
in Glasgow. Winner of many book awards, it follows Protestant Mungo and
Catholic James who are caught
between two of Glasgow’s housing estates
where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines,
and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be
sworn enemies, and yet they become best friends as they find a
sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing
pigeons.
As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and
Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him,
especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a
brutal reputation to uphold. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing
trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose
drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner
strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he
and James might still have a future.
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| Young Mungo doesn't have a broadcaster yet |
