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EXCLUSIVE: Billings Productions, nan independent accumulation institution champion known for its activity connected nan Prime Video bid Off Camps, a romanticist play based connected books from Elle Kennedy, has optioned Sandie Jones‘ bestselling psychological thriller The Other Woman for bid development.
A hunt for a writer to accommodate is presently underway. Billings Productions’ Leanna Billings and Ceylin Kocagöz will exec produce, pinch Noelia Murphy-Devaney, Neal Flaherty, and writer Jones serving arsenic producers.
Published successful 2018, The Other Woman is simply a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club prime that besides landed connected best-of lists from Good Morning America, Library Journal, CrimeReads, and BuzzFeed.
The communicative follows Emily, who falls successful emotion pinch nan cleanable man, Adam, and believes she has yet recovered nan life she’s ever wanted — until she meets his mother, Pammie. To nan extracurricular world, Pammie is warm, polished, and unwaveringly supportive. But down closed doors, her behaviour toward Emily grows progressively calculated and destabilizing. What originates arsenic affectional manipulation slow reveals itself to beryllium thing acold much analyzable — and acold much vulnerable — than anyone realizes.
“This caller is an absolute favourite of ours, and to person nan opportunity to bring it to surface is surreal,” said Billings Productions’ Billings and Kocagöz. “At look value, nan communicative appears to beryllium a classical retelling of mother-in-law versus daughter-in-law, but Sandie’s razor-sharp plotting, psychological precision, and jaw-dropping twists support nan scholar devouring nan book from commencement to finish. The affectional complexity and shifting position create an unthinkable canvas for adaptation.”
The writer of 8 gripping psychological thrillers, including The First Mistake, The Half Sister, The Guilt Trip, and nan forthcoming Killing Me Softly, Jones told america of nan option, “I’m truthful excited for Billings’ passion for bringing The Other Woman to nan screen. Leanna has agelong been a instrumentality of nan book, and we stock nan aforesaid imagination for its adaptation. I cannot hold to spot Pammie successful each her glory!”
Jones is repped by Curtis Brown and UTA; Billings Productions by Dinah Perez, Esq.
