Warner Bros., Hulu, Prime Book Adaptations
Warner Bros. Animation is taking on the bestselling modern classic The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, adapting the novel into an animated series. The story follows a quiet caseworker, Linus Baker, assigned to assess an orphanage of potentially dangerous, magical children when he develops a newfound family that completely alters his outlook on life. A book full of humor and heart, more details on the upcoming animated project will be announced shortly.
High School has never been this deadly. Hulu is adapting the YA thriller The One That Got Away with Murder with writing team Tawanya Bhattacharya and Ali Laventhol (Million Little Things) attached. When a mysterious new girl transfers schools, she’s determined to uncover the truth after discovering her first friend, a golden boy turned outcast, is suspected of murder. Bhattacharya and Laventhol will write and produce for Gaumont Television (Lupin).
Former Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke is set to executive produce Good Bones, an erotic thriller short story from I Know What You Did Last Summer scribe Sam Lansky. Won in a nine-way bidding war, the Prime Video adaptation is set in the cutthroat world of country music, with Salke producing through her Sullivan Street Productions under her first-look deal with Amazon.
Melina Matsoukas (director and executive producer of Insecure) will direct Warner Bros’ dystopian sci-fi film Parable of the Sower. Based on a book of the same name, the film will follow a young man with hyperempathy – a condition characterized by extreme sensitivity to other people’s emotions – as she tries to keep her family together in near-future California. Octavis E. Butler’s 1993 book was a New York Times bestseller in 2020. We hope to see another visually rich yet thematically timely story like she showed in Insecure (HBO series) and Queen & Slim (2019).