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EXCLUSIVE: With much than a twelve suitors chasing nan rights, A24 UK looks to person emerged victorious for nan upcoming Nick Brucker’s caller White Smoke, optioning nan authorities to accommodate nan novel into a tv series. A24 will nutrient alongside Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch and his SunnyMarch accumulation company. Cumberbatch is besides attached to star.
White Smoke by Nick Brucker will beryllium published successful 2027 and is simply a page-turning heist novel set among a group of duplicitous conmen and thieves, who are wished to bargain nan Vatican’s astir singular treasures during a papal conclave.
Sources opportunity that moreover though nan book won’t deed shelves till adjacent year, nan municipality was buzzing for this spot pinch various suitors chasing for some movie and TV. Since nan book is nan first successful a series, nan sellers felt nan TV way made much consciousness and A24 and SunnyMarch’s connection was conscionable excessively bully to walk up.
Nick Brucker is nan pseudonym of speculative fabrication writer Nicholas Binge whose latest novel, Dissolution, was hailed arsenic 1 of nan champion books of 2025 by The New York Times and is being adapted astatine Sony Pictures pinch Eric Heisserer penning nan screenplay and Chronology and Temple Hill co-producing. White Smoke has sold successful 23 world territories (and counting).
For Cumberbatch, this marks his return to tv pursuing his critically acclaimed move successful nan Netflix constricted bid Eric, which bowed past spring. SunnyMarch has besides co-produced the Emmy nominated and BAFTA winning constricted bid Patrick Melrose starring Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Hugo Weaving; and an adjustment of Ian McEwan’s Child In Time for BBC One.
On nan movie side, caller productions person included Mahalia Belo’s debut feature, The End We Start From , starring Jodie Comer, Katherine Waterstone, Mark Strong and Joel Fry; nan Golden Globe winning, BAFTA nominated Kevin Macdonald movie The Mauritanian, starring Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shailene Woodley; Will Sharpe’s play portion The Electrical Life of Louis Wain THE , starring Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough; and The Courier, a cold-war espionage play directed by Dominic Cooke, starring Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Merab Ninidze and Jessie Buckley.
UTA negotiated nan woody connected behalf of Binge and nan filmmakers. Cumberbatch is represented by UTA, Conway van Gelder Grant, and Sloane Offer Weber Dern. Binge is represented by UTA and Alexander Cochran astatine Greyhound Literary.
