NETFLIX UK TO TURN BESTSELLING NOVELS HALF BAD, LOCKWOOD & CO, SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE INTO SUPERNATURAL AND FANTASY TV SERIES

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SLATE OF UK TV PROJECTS

Joe Barton will adapt Half Bad

The slate actually includes seven new shows to be produced in UK including one with Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean): short form, 10-part comedy series MAN VS BEE which finds him house sitting a luxurious mansion while duking it out with a pesky bee. Andy Serkis will, meanwhile, produce series adaptation of Sally Green's HALF BAD trilogy following Sixteen year old Nathan, the illegitimate son of the world’s most feared witch. He’s spent his whole life being monitored for signs he may follow the same destructive path as his father. But as tensions escalate, the old boundaries between “good” and “bad” fray and Nathan will discover what sort of person he truly is!

Sophie Petzal will adapt Turton's book

 

     THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE best selling novel by Stuart Turton will be turned into a seven episode series by Sophie Petzal: it is a mind bending murder mystery. All set within the grounds of a sprawling country estate, this high concept thriller presents an intriguing puzzle – how do you solve a murder when every time you are getting close to the answer, you wake up in someone else’s body?

 

 LOCKWOOD & CO will be another popular book series to be turned into an eight episode show. Joe Cornish will adapt Jonathan Stroud's novels set in London, where the most gifted teenage ghost hunters venture nightly into perilous combat with deadly

Joe Cornish will turn Lockwood &Co into an eight episode series

spirits: amidst the many corporate, adult-run agencies one stands alone: independent of any commercial imperative or adult supervision – a tiny startup, run by two teenage boys and a newly arrived, supremely psychically gifted girl, a renegade trio destined to unravel a mystery that will change the course of history!

'LOCKWOOD & CO' SUPERNATURAL ADVENTURE NOVEL SAGA TO BECOME TV SERIES! 'SECRET SCRIPTURE' POSTER WITH ERIC BANA, AIDAN TURNER, THEO JAMES, JACK REYNOR, VANESSA REDGRAVE

  'LOCKWOOD & CO' SAGA

TO BECOME TV SERIES

The book has been sold in over 25 countries

As 'Deadline' reports, Big Talk Productions has bought the best selling fantasy series LOCKWOOD & CO with plans to adapt the books for television. Writer Jonathan Stroud is releasing the final, fifth part of the supernatural adventure saga into book stores this week!

Launched in 2013 LOCKWOOD & CO books are set in an alternative London that’s facing an epidemic of spooks and ghouls. Only a few young people have the abilities to see and hear the supernatural terrors, and it’s their job to fight them. Many competing Detection Agencies have cropped up to handle the dangerous work, but the smallest, most ramshackle of all is Lockwood & Co.

   'THE SECRET SCRIPTURE'

STELLAR NEW POSTER

A movie that already played around Europe is hitting US cinemas October 13th! THE SECRET SCRIPTURE follows Roseanne McNulty (Vanessa Redgrave) who must vacate the mental institution in Roscommon, Ireland that she's called home for over 50 years. The

It is based on a Sebastian Barry book!

hospital's psychiatrist, Dr. William Grene (Eric Bana), is called in to assess her condition. He finds himself intrigued by Roseanne's seemingly inscrutable rituals and ticks, and her fierce attachment to her Bible, which she has over the decades transformed into a palimpsest of scripture, drawings, and cryptic diary entries. As Grene delves deeper into Roseanne's past, we see her as a young woman (Rooney Mara), whose charisma proves seductive. We learn that she moved to Sligo to work in her aunt's café, fell in love with a dashing fighter pilot (Jack Reynor), and that a local priest (Theo James) fell tragically in love with her. Aidan Turner plays another of her boyfriends.