John Morayniss’ Blink49 Studios and Intercourse Schooling producer Eleven are working up a collection adaptation of writer M.L. Rio’s novel If We Have been Villains.
The e-book, a suspenseful thriller set in an unique arts conservatory, has offered greater than 180,000 copies in English since publishing in 2017 and is offered in 14 languages.
If We Have been Villains follows seven younger Shakespearean actors at an elite school the place competitors is fierce, rivalry is harmful, and the road between life and artwork is dangerously skinny. When tragedy strikes of their closing yr and one turns up useless, the others face their best performing problem but: persuading the police, and themselves, that they’re innocent.
Canada-headquarted Blink49 and the UK’s Eleven will co-produce, with Government Producers Jamie Campbell govt producer and Jennifer Decide the co-executive producer for Eleven. Carolyn Newman and Virginia Rankin of Blink49 Studios are additionally exec producers, together with Rio, Tony-nominated producer Christopher Maring of CM Stage Productions, Andrew Williamson, Henrik Meyer and Enuka Okuma.
No author is but connected, and worldwide distribution particulars haven’t but been set.
Blink49, which former eOne TV chief Morayniss arrange final yr, presently has reveals resembling an adaptation of Marissa Stapley’s romantic drama Issues To Do When It’s Raining on its slate, whereas Eleven is lining up the likes of BBC, Sony and Stan co-pro Ten Pound Poms, about British households who started new lives in Australia in 1956 below the Australian authorities’s immigration scheme of the time.