Exclusive: Lumanity Productions announced that a feature film adaptation deal has been inked with Christine Mangan for her novel The Continental Affair.
This adds to Mangan’s previously optioned debut novel Tangerine originally signed by Imperative Entertainment for producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov at Smokehouse with Scarlett Johansson attached to star. With an eye towards international co-production, Lumanity writer/director Robert Budreau, is set to write, direct and co-produce the film.
Published by Flatiron, a division of Macmillan, in 2023, The Continental Affair is a glamorous early 1960s romantic crime caper about Henri and Louise who fatefully cross paths one morning in Europe. He is living in exile after deserting his post in the French Algerian war. Louise is running from a shadowy past in London and the chains of gendered expectations. When she steals the money that Henri is supposed to protect, the two...
This adds to Mangan’s previously optioned debut novel Tangerine originally signed by Imperative Entertainment for producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov at Smokehouse with Scarlett Johansson attached to star. With an eye towards international co-production, Lumanity writer/director Robert Budreau, is set to write, direct and co-produce the film.
Published by Flatiron, a division of Macmillan, in 2023, The Continental Affair is a glamorous early 1960s romantic crime caper about Henri and Louise who fatefully cross paths one morning in Europe. He is living in exile after deserting his post in the French Algerian war. Louise is running from a shadowy past in London and the chains of gendered expectations. When she steals the money that Henri is supposed to protect, the two...
- 4/10/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Iron Lady” and “Shame” writer Abi Morgan has revealed she is battling breast cancer.
The 51-year-old British writer shared news of her diagnosis during a screening of the second season premiere of BBC One and Sundance TV drama “The Split,” which is produced by “Chernobyl” outfit Sister Pictures and Little Chick.
Highlighting that it has been a “very challenging 18 months,” Morgan said: “I got cancer during this period and I have been quite ill throughout it, so I should mention that this show has been really built as a team.
“What’s been amazing is to have the whole team really hold it, not only behind the screen in terms of the brilliance of (producer Jane Featherstone) and (executive producer Lucy Dyke) but as a company. What was wonderful was to feel how robust that family was and (how they were) able to take it as a group of actors and as an ensemble.
The 51-year-old British writer shared news of her diagnosis during a screening of the second season premiere of BBC One and Sundance TV drama “The Split,” which is produced by “Chernobyl” outfit Sister Pictures and Little Chick.
Highlighting that it has been a “very challenging 18 months,” Morgan said: “I got cancer during this period and I have been quite ill throughout it, so I should mention that this show has been really built as a team.
“What’s been amazing is to have the whole team really hold it, not only behind the screen in terms of the brilliance of (producer Jane Featherstone) and (executive producer Lucy Dyke) but as a company. What was wonderful was to feel how robust that family was and (how they were) able to take it as a group of actors and as an ensemble.
- 1/27/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Abi Morgan, the playwright and screenwriter whose big-screen credits include The Iron Lady, Shame and most recently Suffragette, has been set to adapt Tangerine, the upcoming Christine Mangan psychological thriller novel that Imperative Entertainment scored rights to in November 2016. Mangan’s debut novel, from HarperCollins’ Ecco, is a suspenseful, atmospheric drama set against the simmering political climate of 1950s Morocco. The story follows two female characters…...
- 3/14/2018
- Deadline
Abi Morgan, the writer behind The Iron Lady and Suffragette, will write the psychological thriller Tangerine.
The feature — based on an upcoming novel from Christine Mangan, set to be published by HarperCollins imprint Ecco — will be set in 1950s Morocco and follows once inseparable roommates who, after an unexpected encounter in Tangier, attempt to rekindle their friendship only to find their dark, tangled backstory reemerges.
Imperative Entertainment (All the Money in the World, The Square) is developing the feature with Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas producing. George Clooney and Grant Heslov will also produce via their Smokehouse Pictures banner.
Jillian Apfelbaum will co-produce for...
The feature — based on an upcoming novel from Christine Mangan, set to be published by HarperCollins imprint Ecco — will be set in 1950s Morocco and follows once inseparable roommates who, after an unexpected encounter in Tangier, attempt to rekindle their friendship only to find their dark, tangled backstory reemerges.
Imperative Entertainment (All the Money in the World, The Square) is developing the feature with Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas producing. George Clooney and Grant Heslov will also produce via their Smokehouse Pictures banner.
Jillian Apfelbaum will co-produce for...
- 3/14/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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