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A24 UK is turning investigative writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling: A Mysterious Death successful a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth into a TV series.
The book tells nan communicative of Zac Brettler, a London teen who died nether mysterious circumstances successful 2019. After his death, his parents observe he had been surviving a double life, posing arsenic nan billionaire boy of a Russian oligarch. As they analyse what happened, and who their boy really was, they are drawn into nan acheronian underworld beneath London’s sparkling surface.
The book, which publishes successful 5 days, was initially a New Yorker article, which generated immense interest.
Keefe, 1 of America’s pre-eminent investigative journalists, is already having The Snakehead adapted by A24, which is described as a operation between The Godfather and Chinatown. It is nan 2nd London task A24 has landed successful caller weeks, following Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s We Are The Dead.
We understand nan Piers Wenger and Rose Garnett-led A24 UK won retired successful a competitory business to unafraid nan rights.
A24 UK conscionable hired Heartstopper EP Patrick Walters and has a number of TV projects upcoming including Apple TV’s The Husbands with Juno Temple, Channel 4 shot drama Major Players from Molly Manning Walker and Michaela Coel’s adjacent show, First Day connected Earth, for nan BBC and HBO, which rounded retired formed yesterday.
