Animals Brock Media from producer Sarah Brocklehurst has acquired the rights to award-winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson small worlds.
Brock, who has a partnership deal with BBC Studios, will develop the novel into a TV show in which BBC Studios says he fought off “multiple bidders”.
The novel, set in London and Ghana, will be published in May and is Nelson’s second Costa prize winner open waterfollows protagonist Stephen over three summers and deals with fathers, sons, faith and friendship.
Brock will work closely with Nelson, who will write the screenplay.
“small worlds is a contemporary masterpiece: exciting, haunting and heartfelt,” said Brocklehurst. “I had such a strong emotional response to the book, so it’s an honor to be entrusted with bringing it to the screen.”
Brock was established a year ago with a development, production and distribution deal with BBC Studios. The company does too the escape, Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir, starring Saoirse Ronan, along with a TV adaptation of Animals Memoirs of the author Emma Jane Unsworth after the storm
Author: Max Goldbart
Source: Deadline
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