Jul 30 2021
A TV series adaptation of Maggie Shipstead's Booker Prize-longlisted novel Great Circle is being developed by Picturestart, the production company set up by former Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-president Erik Feig. Deadline reported that Feig's company "won the rights to the book in a competitive bidding war." Shipstead will exec produce the project, with Picturestart now looking to find a writer to adapt it as a series.
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