EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA and Academy-Award-winning indie manufacturing firm Cowboy Movies has secured the rights in a aggressive scenario to adapt Cat Combat, the novel by Equipment Conway, for TV. The deal was brokered by UTA on behalf of the creator.
Bantam will publish the novel within the U.Ok. on Could 15, with the U.S. to observe on June 3 from Atria Books.
Described as Massive Little Lies meets Tiger King, Cat Combat is a enjoyable and propulsive novel about three suburban ladies who, all through one summer season, every use the rising hysteria round a giant cat sighting to attain their very own agendas—some extra sinister than others. It marks a suspense fiction debut for Conway, who beforehand labored as a company lawyer in London.
“Cowboy Movies are such artistic and bold storytellers, and I used to be blown away by their imaginative and prescient for the mission. I’m thrilled to be working with them on Cat Combat’s journey from web page to display and excited for what lies forward,” Conway shared in an announcement.
Added reps from Cowboy Movies, “We couldn’t be extra thrilled that Equipment has entrusted Cowboy Movies to adapt her sensible novel for TV. Massive Cat sightings maintain a singular attraction to the general public and Equipment harnesses this phenomenon to create a enjoyable, thrilling, and mysterious story of suburban life that we really feel will captivate the viewers.”
Cowboy Movies, run by producers Charles Metal and Alasdair Flind, is an impartial Movie and TV firm that has produced BAFTA and Academy Award-winning movies for over 20 years. The ultimate season of its extremely profitable Netflix present High Boy was launched final 12 months. The sequence received the BAFTA for Finest Drama Collection. The corporate’s earlier credit embrace function movies like The Final King of Scotland, which received the BAFTA for Finest British Movie together with the Academy Award for Forest Whitaker as Finest Actor; theatrical documentaries such because the BAFTA-nominated Marley; and quick movies like Andrea Arnold’s Wasp, which received the Academy Award for Finest Reside Motion Brief.
Conway is represented by Paper Literary and UTA.
