A24 reunites with Shuggie Bain writer Douglas Stuart for TV series Young Mungo

EXCLUSIVE: The first new A24 project since the studio’s record-breaking Oscar win last week is an international TV series The young mongoosefrom his award-winning novel by Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart.

Helmed by A24 international bosses Piers Wenger and Rose Garnett, the series about the dangerous first love of two working-class Glasgow men is a coup for the pair given the rave reviews and enthusiasm for the writer.

published last year The young mongoose is Stuart’s second novel after the Booker Prize winner Shuggie Bain, which A24 is currently doing in series with the BBC. A channel has yet to be set up The young mongoose.

The story follows the Protestant Mungo and the Catholic James who live in a hypermasculine world. They are caught between two residential areas of Glasgow, where young working-class men are divided along sectarian lines and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they are to be considered men at all, but they become best friends when they find refuge in the doocot James has built for his prized homing pigeons.

As they fall in love, they dream of escaping the Gray City and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from everyone around him, especially his older brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a ruthless reputation. support. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a lake in the west of Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter hides a dark past, it takes all his inner strength and courage to return to a safe place, a place where he and James they can still have a future.

The book was named Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, The Guardian, Amazon, Apple BookPage, Reader’s Digest and the Times of London, among others.

Stuart himself was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain, his first novel, won both the Booker Prize, Debut of the Year and Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. It was also nominated for the US National Book Award for Fiction. The author is the subject of the BBC One film Imagine Love, Hope and Griet.

As we first revealed, A24’s growing international slate also includes a TV version of Yomi Adegoke’s anticipated debut novel The listis made with HBO Max and BBC.