Rose Ayling-Ellis is leading a TV adaptation of Will Dean’s first Tuva Moodyson novel about a deaf journalist in development with Death in Paradise producer Red Planet Pictures.
The Strictly Come Dancing winner is also exec producing Tuva [working title], which is being forged as a six-part returning crime thriller version of Dean’s first novel in the series, Dark Pines.
In Dark Pines, Moodyson moves back to her hometown in the wilds of Scotland and finds herself working on a small-time local paper, desperate for a headline-breaking scoop. When a serial killer who has remained dormant for 20 years begins to kill again in the small community, she finds herself with a front-page story that could make her career, but will it lead to danger?
Former EastEnders star Ayling-Ellis became the first deaf winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2021 and has since landed roles in the likes of ITV’s Code of Silence.
The Strictly Come Dancing winner is also exec producing Tuva [working title], which is being forged as a six-part returning crime thriller version of Dean’s first novel in the series, Dark Pines.
In Dark Pines, Moodyson moves back to her hometown in the wilds of Scotland and finds herself working on a small-time local paper, desperate for a headline-breaking scoop. When a serial killer who has remained dormant for 20 years begins to kill again in the small community, she finds herself with a front-page story that could make her career, but will it lead to danger?
Former EastEnders star Ayling-Ellis became the first deaf winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2021 and has since landed roles in the likes of ITV’s Code of Silence.
- 11/23/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Around The World In 80 Days writer Stephen Greenhorn is penning an adaptation of James Goodhand’s YA novel Last Lesson for Sanditon producer Red Planet Pictures.
Death In Paradise indie Red Planet has optioned the rights to Goodhand’s debut, which was published last year and examines the psychological breakdown of model student and talented musician Ollie Morcombe after he suffers an horrific accident. Having previously been one of the popular kids, he’s now become an outcast and his life made a living hell by vicious bullies. As Ollie reaches the extremities of breaking point, he takes matters into his own hands and, on the last day of the school year, brings those bullies a gift; a homemade pipe bomb.
Greenhorn, who is part of the writing team on BBC1’s upcoming Around The World In 80 Days adaptation, is penning the series, which is not yet attached to a broadcaster.
Death In Paradise indie Red Planet has optioned the rights to Goodhand’s debut, which was published last year and examines the psychological breakdown of model student and talented musician Ollie Morcombe after he suffers an horrific accident. Having previously been one of the popular kids, he’s now become an outcast and his life made a living hell by vicious bullies. As Ollie reaches the extremities of breaking point, he takes matters into his own hands and, on the last day of the school year, brings those bullies a gift; a homemade pipe bomb.
Greenhorn, who is part of the writing team on BBC1’s upcoming Around The World In 80 Days adaptation, is penning the series, which is not yet attached to a broadcaster.
- 12/2/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
With John Wick, directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski certainly caught people.s attention. On a modest budget, they turned out one of the best action movies in years, and for their next trick, they.re teaming with Charlize Theron for an awesome sounding spy thriller. According to Deadline, Leitch, Stahelski, and Theron are all on board a project, newly acquired by Focus Features at the Cannes Film Festival, based on the graphic novel The Coldest City. Written by Anthony Johnston and published by Oni Press, the story is set in 1989 during the fall of Communism in the Eastern Bloc. While things are changing, there is still a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff going on. When an MI6 agent carrying a list of every covert agent working undercover is killed, Lorraine Broughton (Theron) must travel to Berlin and enter a tense situation full of social upheaval, spy versus...
- 5/11/2015
- cinemablend.com
If she survives George Miller’s barren Aussie wasteland in Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron will star in the new Cold War–era spy film from John Wick co-directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch. ScreenCrush reports that the dynamic duo responsible for the gorgeously gory action flick will turn Anthony Johnston's novel The Coldest City into another gorgeous, but presumably less gory, flick. Kurt Johnstead (300, Act of Valor, the upcoming Aquaman) is writing the screenplay.As our own Bilge Ebiri eloquently puts it, John Wick is a violent, violent, violent film, but oh so beautiful. The surprise hit, which stars the ageless humanitarian known as Keanu Reeves and, for a few brief minutes, an adorable puppy named Daisy, features some of the cleanest editing and most carefully calculated carnage to splatter the screen in recent years. The title character (Reeves) goes on an ass-kicking spree when some Russian...
- 5/9/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
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