Executives producers are Sherry and Priscilla Parish for BBC Studios Sam Sokolow for Nice Media and Bill Kiely for Windowseat. TV rights to Penguin Random House/Michael Joseph’s The Chalk Man are jointly owned by BBC Studios, Nice Media, and Windowseat. Nice Media chairman Sam Sokolow added: “Mick Ford’s authentic voice and dynamic vision serve the material great justice.”
“CJ Tudor’s chilling tale of an adulthood haunted by the past, is a story we knew TV viewers around the world would be gripped by,” said Tom Sherry, head of BBC Studios drama north. TV rights were acquired by Buccaneer from Hannah Ladds at Madeleine Milburn.Sheridan Smith & Céline Buckens To Star In Paramount+ UK Adaptation Of Lucy Clarke Novel 'The Castaways' Tudor is represented by Madeleine Milburn at the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency. “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”.īuccaneer Co-CEO Tulk-Hart described The Chalk Man as Tudor’s “celebrated debut work.” Tudor’s books and I’m so glad that I get the opportunity to adapt another one of them,” said Rosenfeldt.
He has been trying his hand at fantasy of late, penning Viaplay’s adaptation of Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, and recently told Deadline he has stopped watching crime shows. The project represents a return to the crime thriller genre for Swedish auteur Rosenfeldt. Tudor has been called “Britain’s female Stephen King” by newspapers and Buccaneer, the prolific drama indie run by Tony Wood and Richard Tulk-Hart, is also adapting her novel The Drift for TV, although Rosenfeldt isn’t attached to that project. Fast-forward to 2016 and Eddie thinks he has put the past behind him, before he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same. Starting in 1986, the book follows Eddie “Munster” Adams, who spends his days biking around a sleepy English village exchanging secret codes via little chalk stick figures with his friends. We hear a network deal for The Chalk Man is close. 'The Bridge' Creator Hans Rosenfeldt Says He Is "Not Really Watching Crime Shows At The Moment" As He Talks Up His Big-Budget Fantasy Epic 'Ronja The Robber's Daughter'
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