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EXCLUSIVE: Nearly 20 years aft nan Nicolas Roeg movie starring Kelly Reilly and Donald Sutherland, a mini surface type of Fay Weldon’s supernatural caller Puffball is successful development.
Deadline understands Firebird Pictures has optioned nan 1980 novel, pinch Morgan Lloyd Malcom, an Olivier Award-winning playwright who penned Netflix thriller Obsession, attached to write.
Fay Weldon’s Puffball follows a young London couple, Liffey and Richard, who move to nan state pinch nan anticipation of having children. Their neighbours are Mabs and Tucker, a farming family pinch 5 children of their own. Mabs, suspicious of nan newcomers’ easy life, sends Tucker to slumber pinch Liffey while Richard is away, priming her pinch an herbal aphrodisiac, but she becomes angry erstwhile Liffey becomes pregnant and finds that she herself is abruptly incapable to conceive.
The caller was made into a 2007 movie directed by Roeg starring Yellowstone’s Reilly arsenic Liffey, Sutherland arsenic Lars and Miranda Richardson arsenic Mabs.
Weldon is simply a celebrated British writer whose past activity includes The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, which was made into an American movie starring Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr, and a BBC series. She died successful 2023 aft publishing much than 30 novels.
Firebird’s TV type of Puffball is not yet attached to a web and hasn’t formed but Lloyd Malcolm is simply a bully get arsenic writer. She won an Olivier Award for her play Emilia, which is now being made into a film, and besides wrote Netflix thriller Obsession starring Richard Armitage, on pinch well-reviewed psychological movie The Wasp starring Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer. Obsession was besides based connected older IP, nan 1991 caller by Josephine Hart.
BBC Studios-backed Firebird is producing Puffball. The indie has precocious travel disconnected nan backmost of Nicôle Lecky’s Wild Cherry for nan BBC and is making Wahala for nan aforesaid network. That 1 just cast Cush Jumbo, Adelayo Adedayo, Deborah Ayorinde and Susan Wokoma.
