Exclusive: Nascent La/London drama producer Three Tables Productions has teamed with Fremantle to develop an adaptation of mystery thriller The Robber Baron’s Daughter.
The companies have set Picnic At Hanging Rock writer Beatrix Christian to adapt Jamila Gavin’s book.
The adaptation marks the first project unveiled by Three Tables, which was set up by group of UK drama producers and former September Films boss David Green last year.
The three London-based founders of the company are David Chikwe, who produced Cbbc’s Eve and BBC One drama Missing, Himesh Kar, exec producer of Benedict Cumberbatch-fronted doc Walk With Me and Jt Wong, producer of BBC kids’ show The Mysti Show. Green, who previously ran Dcd Media and directed a raft of film and TV including Phil Collins film Buster, is Chairman and based in La.
The Robber Baron’s Daughter, which was first published in 2008, is...
The companies have set Picnic At Hanging Rock writer Beatrix Christian to adapt Jamila Gavin’s book.
The adaptation marks the first project unveiled by Three Tables, which was set up by group of UK drama producers and former September Films boss David Green last year.
The three London-based founders of the company are David Chikwe, who produced Cbbc’s Eve and BBC One drama Missing, Himesh Kar, exec producer of Benedict Cumberbatch-fronted doc Walk With Me and Jt Wong, producer of BBC kids’ show The Mysti Show. Green, who previously ran Dcd Media and directed a raft of film and TV including Phil Collins film Buster, is Chairman and based in La.
The Robber Baron’s Daughter, which was first published in 2008, is...
- 11/19/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Fremantle, part of Bertelsmann's Rtl Group, will adapt Jamila Gavin's award-winning mystery thriller The Robber Baron’s Daughter as a TV series, the company said Tuesday. Beatrix Christian, a writer on Fremantle's limited series Picnic at Hanging Rock, will adapt Gavin's 2008 novel for the small screen. Fremantle’s creative director for global drama, Christian Vesper, will act as executive producer. The Robber Baron’s Daughter tells the story of a rich girl living a sheltered life of privilege who disobeys her powerful father to investigate the disappearance of her tutor, only to uncover a secret criminal ...
- 11/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Horses as life-size puppets? The wrong soldier executed? Michael Morpurgo has had to challenge his own preconceptions when seeing his books adapted for stage or screen. But with Spielberg's War Horse film forthcoming and The Rainbow Bear a ballet, he's getting used to good surprises
To me it's all storytelling. After centuries of stories dominated by the written word, we may sometimes forget that, for many generations before, the telling of stories was almost entirely an oral tradition, with a little help from travelling players and singers and bands. These storytellers adapted, reinvented and recreated all the time, to reflect changing times and tastes.
As a maker of stories, originally written for the readers of books, I am always alert to the possibilities of finding new and inventive ways of telling them, of bringing them to a wider audience. To begin with, I never imagined anyone would think of adapting...
To me it's all storytelling. After centuries of stories dominated by the written word, we may sometimes forget that, for many generations before, the telling of stories was almost entirely an oral tradition, with a little help from travelling players and singers and bands. These storytellers adapted, reinvented and recreated all the time, to reflect changing times and tastes.
As a maker of stories, originally written for the readers of books, I am always alert to the possibilities of finding new and inventive ways of telling them, of bringing them to a wider audience. To begin with, I never imagined anyone would think of adapting...
- 8/20/2010
- by Michael Morpurgo
- The Guardian - Film News
- After years of being attached to and developing The Ice at the Bottom of the World, Alan Parker is now turning his attention to producer Scott Rudin and Allison Owen’s film adaptation of a book that won the Whitbread Award for British children's literature.Parker who last directed The Life of David Gale (a film that I often debate among peers who claim it is a superior film) is in negotiations to write and adapt the project. Miramax Films will distribute. Based on the children's novel by Jamila Gavin, this is a story about teenage pregnancy, infanticide and slave-trading in 18th Century Georgian London, Coram Boy is a sprawling epic of Dickensian proportions. It follows the story of wealthy English estate heir who forsakes his fortune for music before fathering a love child....
- 7/11/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Alan Parker is in negotiations to write and adapt the film adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning book The Coram Boy, which Scott Rudin and Allison Owen are producing for Miramax Films.
Set in 18th century England, Coram is about two orphans -- one rescued from an African slave ship, the other the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate -- who get a second chance at life in a home for deserted children. The book won the Whitbread Award for British children's literature.
A stage version of the novel recently opened on Broadway to critical acclaim and also is a hit in London at the National Theatre.
Parker most recently directed 2003's The Life of David Gale. He wrote and directed the adaptation of Frank McCourt's autobiography Angela's Ashes and the musical Evita and helmed The Commitments, based on a novel by Roddy Doyle.
Parker is repped by UTA, ICM London and attorney Alan Wertheimer.
Set in 18th century England, Coram is about two orphans -- one rescued from an African slave ship, the other the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate -- who get a second chance at life in a home for deserted children. The book won the Whitbread Award for British children's literature.
A stage version of the novel recently opened on Broadway to critical acclaim and also is a hit in London at the National Theatre.
Parker most recently directed 2003's The Life of David Gale. He wrote and directed the adaptation of Frank McCourt's autobiography Angela's Ashes and the musical Evita and helmed The Commitments, based on a novel by Roddy Doyle.
Parker is repped by UTA, ICM London and attorney Alan Wertheimer.
- 7/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BBC Films is reuniting with U.S. uber producer Scott Rudin and top flight British producer Alison Owen to make "Coram Boy", a big screen adaptation of the epic best-selling children's novel by Jamila Gavin.
Owen ("Sylvia") and Rudin ("Notes On A Scandal") are no strangers to BBC Films, having both worked alongside the filmmaking arm of U.K. pubcaster in the recent past.
"Coram Boy" made it to the stage last year at the U.K.'s National Theater adapted by Helen Edmundson. The London Times described the production as "full of dash and vim" when it was staged in 2005.
A story about teenage pregnancy, infanticide and slave-trading in 18th Century Georgian London, "Coram Boy" is a sprawling epic of Dickensian proportions. It follows the story of wealthy English estate heir who forsakes his fortune for music before fathering a love child.
The project has also garnered cash support to the tune of £70,000 ($137,000) from the U.K. Film Council's development fund, according the organization's website.
Rudin exec produced the 20th Century Fox distributed "Notes On A Scandal" for DNA Films with backing from BBC Films and the U.K.
Owen ("Sylvia") and Rudin ("Notes On A Scandal") are no strangers to BBC Films, having both worked alongside the filmmaking arm of U.K. pubcaster in the recent past.
"Coram Boy" made it to the stage last year at the U.K.'s National Theater adapted by Helen Edmundson. The London Times described the production as "full of dash and vim" when it was staged in 2005.
A story about teenage pregnancy, infanticide and slave-trading in 18th Century Georgian London, "Coram Boy" is a sprawling epic of Dickensian proportions. It follows the story of wealthy English estate heir who forsakes his fortune for music before fathering a love child.
The project has also garnered cash support to the tune of £70,000 ($137,000) from the U.K. Film Council's development fund, according the organization's website.
Rudin exec produced the 20th Century Fox distributed "Notes On A Scandal" for DNA Films with backing from BBC Films and the U.K.
- 2/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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