Apple TV has formally introduced they’ve killed a TV adaptation regardless of it being the most effective e-book of 2024.
Selection reported that Apple has canceled plans to adapt Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel Lengthy Island Compromise. The collection was initially set to be developed by Apple, however is now open to different affords for adaptation.
Earlier than the e-book was printed, there was an open bidding battle for the e-book to be tailored for TV which had a number of studios . Brodesser-Akner had plans to remain on and write the screenplay whereas government producing alongside Richard Plepler and his firm Eden Productions, which entered a five-year cope with Apple TV in early 2020.
The e-book follows Brodesser-Akner’s earlier bestselling novel Fleishman Is in Hassle, which was tailored by Hulu right into a miniseries in 2022. Brodesser-Akner was nominated for an Emmy for her screenplay.
Lengthy Island Compromise follows rich businessman Carl Fletcher, who was kidnapped and held for ransom, however is about many years after the incident occurred. Practically 40 years after the kidnapping, the household comes collectively and clearly reveals nobody has coped with the incident.
The e-book expands and contains particulars on the Fletcher household historical past and the official synopsis is:
“Custom, the pursuit of success, the phobia of historical past, worry of the longer term, outdated wives’ tales, evil eyes, survival, security, ambition, achievement, boredom, orgies, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, and the principally unstated love and shared expertise that unite a household ceaselessly.”
Brodesser-Akner’s e-book isn’t the one disappointing adaptation that fell via. Sarah J. Maas’s collection A Court docket of Thorn and Roses was initially being developed by Hulu in 2021, when the books went viral and obtained vital acclaim.
Sadly, the variation was canceled. Nonetheless, Maas has acknowledged she is going to pursue the undertaking and potential adaptation alternatives elsewhere.
Fortunately, avid readers will get the possibility to see e-book adaptions, together with A Night time of the Seven Kingdoms, Folks We Meet on Trip, and most just lately Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You launched in theaters this month, however has been met with slightly blended critiques.
It’s unclear whether or not Lengthy Island Compromise will proceed to be tailored by one other studio, however since a bidding battle initially occurred, then events have the potential to select up the place Apple left and provides Brodesser-Akner’s novel an opportunity to be on TV.