The novel by Emma Forrest “Father Figure” takes place for the adaptation of research films
See-Saw Films (part of the Mediawan group) optionized the next novel by Emma Forrest Paternal figure.
The book will be adapted to television by the SEE-Saw label, Fanboy, managed by the executive producer Patrick Walters. After Fanboy’s successful series Tracksuit For Sky Atlantic, and Harry Trevaldwyn’s option Romantic tragedies of a king dramaThe company then turns its attention to the thriller of Forrest in adulthood.
History follows Gail, a student in studies at the Exclusive School of Saint-Saveurs. “Impulsive, annoyed and sucking on connection, it is at this dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and brought home by your mother,” reads a synopsis. “Ezra is rich, powerful and prosperous, haunted by the savagery of her youth – and anxiety with regard to her teenage daughter, Agata. When Agata joins Saint Saveurs, Gail and Ezra come up against, triggering a chain of events more dangerous than one or the other could not plan it. ”
Helen Gregory, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Forrest himself will also be producers of the series.
Paternal figure is the last of a series of literary options for See-Saw, which has also recently acquired the rights of Let’s go out by Benedict Lombe, and Welcome to Glorious Tuga By Francesca Segal, alongside a first agreement with the writer Ben Vanstone.
Forrest’s book will be published on July 3 with Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an orion Publishing Group imprint.
“In order not to be too much on the theme, but I am as stunned as a teenage girl unbalanced to have found in the saw to see and the fanboys so connected to my equipment, whose ambition and aesthetics reflect mine so closely,” said Forrest. “I know that Patrick and Natasha are undoubtedly those who help me translate my novel to watch television.”
Walters added: “Paternal figure is an incredible novel and we are delighted to adapt it to television. Emma is a singular talent that I have long been admired from the seminal Your voice in my head. In Gail, she created an extraordinary literary heroine who, I undoubtedly put, who will break out on the screen with an electrical force. »»
