Ellen Pompeo Prepping ABC Drama Based on Paradise Book Trilogy
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The Grey s Anatomy star will exec produce alongside former Mad Men writers Andre and Maria Jacquemetton.
Ellen Pompeo is expanding her producing footprint for ABC.
The
Mad Men writers André and Maria Jacquemetton to bring Elin Hilderbrand s best-selling
Paradise book trilogy to ABC as a limited series.
The drama, which is currently in development as part of the
Grey s and
Station 19 exec producer s larger pact with ABC Signature, tells the story of a husband s secret life and a wife s new beginning. The potential series revolves around Irene Steele, who, after her husband s perplexing death, learns that he had been living a secret life with an entirely separate family on the Caribbean island of St. John. As Irene untangles a web of intrigue and deceit, and as she and her sons find themselves drawn into the vibrant island culture, they have to face the truth about their family and the
Ellen Pompeo to Produce Series Adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand s Paradise Novels at ABC
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ABC is developing a series adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s “Paradise” novel trilogy, with “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo set to executive produce.
The project is titled “Winter in Paradise,” named after the first book in the trilogy. The series focuses on Irene Steele, who shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to an extreme. But when her husband dies in a perplexing manner, she soon learns that he has been living a secret life with an entirely separate family on the distant Caribbean island of St. John. As Irene untangles a web of intrigue and deceit, and as she and her sons find themselves drawn into the vibrant island culture, they have to face the truth about their family and their future.
Netflix Picks Up Gal Gadot Spy Film ‘Heart of Stone’ From Skydance
“The Aeronauts” filmmaker Tom Harper will directBrian Welk | January 15, 2021 @ 8:51 AM Last Updated: January 15, 2021 @ 9:54 AM
Gal Gadot attends the 2017 GQ Men of the Year party at Chateau Marmont on December 7, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for GQ)
Netflix has acquired in an auction the worldwide rights to “Heart of Stone,” a spy thriller that will star Gal Gadot in what could be an action franchise in the vein of the “Mission: Impossible” series for Skydance Media.
“The Old Guard” writer Greg Rucka wrote the screenplay with Allison Schroeder. Tom Harper, known for “The Aeronauts” and “Wild Rose,” will direct.
With a six-figure preempt,
Claire Kohda’s
Woman, Eating for HarperVia. The debut novel, set for spring 2022, was sold in a North American rights agreement by
Sam Copeland at London’s RCW Literary Agency. Parsons described the work as a “literary vampire novel” that is “Ottessa Moshfegh meets
My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Twilight.” It follows an intern named Lydia who, Parsons explained, is living on her own, in London, for the first time. Away from her vampire mother, lonely, and hungry (subsisting on a diet of hard-to-secure pig blood), Lydia must “reconcile the conflicts within her between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food and, in turn, humans if she is to find a way to exist in the world.” Kohda is a book reviewer who has written for the