EXCLUSIVE: All of British writer Sarah Waters’ canonical books have been made into movies – besides one. That is about to vary.
Deadline understands that BBC Studios Fiction has opted for Paying visitorsthe 2014 e book a few 1922 love story that turns right into a twisty crime thriller.
We hear In my pores and skin And Kill Eve author Kayleigh Llewellyn, who’s writing the upcoming BBC collection Dream landsis connected to adapt it in collection. No networks or streamers are related at this level.
Right here is the plot: “Set in London in 1922, Paying visitors follows Frances Wray and her mom as they soak up married tenants Lilian and Leonard Barber. What begins as a clandestine, intoxicating love story between Frances and Lilian turns right into a twisting crime thriller, culminating in a brutal homicide and a nail-biting trial.
Waters, who was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Ladies’s Prize for Fiction, is without doubt one of the most tailored authors working in the present day. Earlier variations of his books embody BBC collection Rocking the Velvet And FingeryAndrew Davies AffinityBBC TV film The Evening Watch and the characteristic movie by Lenny Abrahamson The little stranger. Fingery additionally impressed the Park Chan‑wook movie The servant.
Paying visitors will be part of a BBC Studios Fiction slate that features the upcoming third season of Jimmy McGovern’s drama Timewhich is about in a younger offenders’ establishment and stars David Tennant and Siobhan Finneran.
BBC Studios Fiction was fashioned final 12 months, as we revealed on the time, with BBC Studios Comedy Productions boss Josh Cole on the helm as artistic director.
The label sits alongside BBC Studios Drama Productions, which makes long-running, ongoing and recurring collection equivalent to Sufferer And Silent witness.