EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Footage has pre-emptively acquired movie rights to Miss Archer, the extremely anticipated debut novel by Pulitzer Prize finalist and acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Jordan Harrison. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Coloration Pressure will produce by their producing deal at Sony.
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, received North American publishing rights after a heated 13-way public sale from Julie Barer at The E-book Group and can publish Miss Archer in early 2027. Harrison will adapt his novel for the display screen. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the challenge for 3000 Footage alongside Coloration Pressure’s Head of Movie, Khaliah Neal.
The novel follows Dre, a younger girl employed to be a governess, and Albie, the unusual boy she is entrusted to boost in an remoted, gothic mansion the place all are pressured to take care of the phantasm that the yr is 1884. At first, Dre works laborious to embody the position of ‘Miss Archer,’ with comportment classes and period-appropriate attire. However mysteries quickly come up, and with every new discovery Dre grows extra protecting of Albie, who could maintain the important thing to human survival.
Harrison broke by in 2015 with Marjorie Prime, a critically acclaimed play that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. The play was later tailored right into a function movie, which premiered on the 2017 Sundance Movie Pageant. New York primarily based Harrison has written practically 20 performs and has acquired quite a few awards and fellowships, together with a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Horton Foote Prize. His newest work, The Antiquities, just lately accomplished a sold-out run at New York’s Playwrights Horizons and is nominated for Lucille Lortel, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Greatest Play.
Harrison is represented by UTA and Curate.
Coloration Pressure is at present in pre-production on Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, the following movie in The Starvation Video games sequence. On the tv facet, they’re in pre-production with Ryan Murphy on American Love Story, which follows the courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Jacobson and Simpson are 2025 BAFTA nominees for his or her acclaimed FX sequence Say Nothing. Coloration Pressure’s most up-to-date movies embrace one of many largest vacation tentpoles of 2023, Lionsgate’s The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
