NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS
RAMONA AUSUBEL'S THE LAST ANIMAL
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The Last Animal will be turned into a movie
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Walden Media is turning
Ramona Ausubel's award winning novel
THE LAST ANIMAL into a movie helmed by
Ry Russo-Young. It follows teenaged sisters Eve and Vera, unexpectedly spending summer vacation on their mother’s scientific expedition. Fooling around in the permafrost, the sisters accidentally uncover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth. The discovery sends mother and daughters from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world — or at least their family.
THE OTHER VALLEY SF TV SERIES |
The Other Valley is out this week in bookshops
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Meanwhile,
Working Title is developing a TV series adaptation of
Scott Alexander
Howard's upcoming fantasy book
THE OTHER VALLEY. Out this
March in
bookshops, this speculative fiction book is set in a town that is
physically neighbored by its own future and past. Grieving residents can
seek permission to visit a past version of their town on the other side
of the mountains, hiking back in time to get one last look at somebody
they’ve lost. The novel follows a candidate training to oversee such
requests, who accidentally spots two visitors from the future: the
grieving parents of the boy she loves.
MIKE NICHOLS: A LIFE GETS A MOVIE
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Peter Spears will produce the movie drama
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Over in United Kingdom,
Nomadland's producer
Peter Spears has optioned movie rights for
MIKE NICHOLS: A LIFE by
Mark Harris and the movie will depict his 1966’s
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? high-stakes collaboration with the film’s two married stars
Elizabeth Taylor and
Richard Burton. The book captures the moment that a first-time filmmaker found himself thrust into a front-row seat for one of the most scandalous love affairs ever to rock Hollywood, indeed, the entire world, a time when Taylor and Burton were on the front page of every newspaper, and denounced on the floor of Congress and in the halls of the Vatican.
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Apple TV Plus is making Neuromancer series
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NEUROMANCER SERIES AT APPLE TV PLUSApple
TV Plus has taken the rights on classic sf novel from William Gibson
NEUROMANCER and is turning it into a ten episode sf series. Graham
Roland will be the showrunner of the series which will follow a damaged,
top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital
espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl
assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate
dynasty with untold secrets. The cyberpunk novel won most of the big sf
awards and was the first in a trilogy of sf novels.
(Callum Turner)
who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime
with his partner Molly (Briana Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming
to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets. Graham Roland will be the show runner and executive producer of the new television series in which Strong will play Armitage, Case and Molly’s mysterious employer, while Joseph Lee will play Hideo, a professional bodyguard. 
(Callum Turner)
who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime
with his partner Molly (Briana Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming
to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets. Graham Roland will be the show runner and executive producer of the new television series in which Strong will play Armitage, Case and Molly’s mysterious employer, while Joseph Lee will play Hideo, a professional bodyguard. 
