EXCLUSIVE: The Bridge creator Hans Rosenfeldt has set his subsequent challenge, a return to the canon of crime creator C.J. Tudor.
Having simply penned Paramount+’s adaptation of Tudor’s The Burning Girls, Rosenfeldt is now turning his consideration to her first novel, 2016’s The Chalk Man.
Rosenfeldt is combining as soon as once more with UK indie Buccaneer Media, with whom he labored on The Burning Girls and ITV thriller Marcella. BBC Studios, Nice Media Studios, Windowseat Pictures and The Boy with the Top Knot author Mick Ford have been beforehand adapting The Chalk Man however they’re now not connected.
We hear a community deal for The Chalk Man is shut.
Starting in 1986, the e book follows Eddie “Munster” Adams, who spends his days biking round a sleepy English village exchanging secret codes by way of little chalk stick figures along with his mates. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them proper to a dismembered physique, and nothing is ever the identical. Fast-forward to 2016 and Eddie thinks he has put the previous behind him, earlier than he will get a letter within the mail, containing a single chalk stick determine.
Tudor has been referred to as “Britain’s female Stephen King” by newspapers and Buccaneer, the prolific drama indie run by Tony Wood and Richard Tulk-Hart, can be adapting her novel The Drift for TV, though Rosenfeldt isn’t connected to that challenge.
The challenge represents a return to the crime thriller style for Swedish auteur Rosenfeldt. He has been attempting his hand at fantasy of late, penning Viaplay’s adaptation of Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, and just lately informed Deadline he has stopped watching crime reveals.
“I love C.J. Tudor’s books and I’m so glad that I get the opportunity to adapt another one of them,” stated Rosenfeldt. “I’m really looking forward to bringing The Chalk Man‘s exciting twisty plot and interesting characters to the screen together with the great people at Buccaneer”.
Buccaneer Co-CEO Tulk-Hart described The Chalk Man as Tudor’s “celebrated debut work.”
Tudor is represented by Madeleine Milburn on the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency. TV rights have been acquired by Buccaneer from Hannah Ladds at Madeleine Milburn.
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