An Emmy-winning screenwriter is taking her personal life story to the small display screen. Based on Deadline, Abi Morgan will write, direct, and exec produce a TV adaptation of “This Is Not a Pity Memoir,” her autobiographical guide that hit stands earlier this 12 months. Sister, a studio based by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone, landed rights to the guide. Featherstone is co-producing the challenge with Little Chick, Morgan’s manufacturing firm. A broadcaster isn’t connected but.
Morgan received an Emmy for “The Hour.” She created “The Cut up.” The third and remaining season of the authorized drama debuts on BBC America at present, June 27. “Suffragette,” “The Iron Woman,” and “Disgrace” are amongst her large display screen writing credit.
A Sunday Occasions bestseller, Morgan’s guide “begins with the surprising collapse of her associate Jacob Krichefski one June morning,” per the supply. The guide’s synopsis emphasizes that it isn’t “a pity memoir,” however somewhat “a narrative about assembly your individual. It’s in regards to the stuff you wished you’d stated to the individual you’re keen on. It’s in regards to the silence of being misplaced in area and the significance of household, and events, and noise. It’s about not understanding and never being recognized. It’s the distinction between dwelling and surviving.”
Morgan works with Sister on “The Cut up.”
“Working with Jane and Sister over the previous couple of tumultuous years, they’ve been my working companions, given a novel chook’s eye view on the unfolding drama,” stated Morgan. “As producers of among the greatest movie and tv on the market, there isn’t a one else I might belief to assist deliver the deeply private ‘This Is Not a Pity Memoir’ to the display screen.”
Featherstone added, “Abi has such a unprecedented present for phrases, so whereas it ought to be completely no shock that her memoir is such an exquisite and highly effective guide, it nonetheless shocked me. We’ve labored collectively for a few years however her unbelievable power in these previous couple of, very difficult ones, has been deeply inspirational.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood
