EXCLUSIVE: Australian producer Magpie Photos has optioned display rights to Emma Gray’s novel Photos of You, and appointed Quan Phung and Fiona Eagger as advisors.
The pickup of Gray’s novel comes as a part of a plan to develop a slate of scripted sequence by funding from Display Australia Enterprise.
The ebook follows forensic linguist Evie Hudson who loses reminiscence of her husband and the previous 13 years after a automotive crash that kills him. “As she items collectively fragments of her life Evie has to confront what she’s misplaced and discover what she nonetheless has to struggle for,” mentioned Magpie founder and producer Lois Randall. “With its distinctive hook and viewpoint we’re adapting Photos of You as a thriller thriller that, whereas traversing pressing themes, has a second likelihood love story at its coronary heart.”
She’s going to produce the sequence with Matt Kelly as govt producer. “Photos of You rocketed straight into the USA As we speak finest vendor record after it was printed in November and is already out-pacing Gray’s debut novel The Final Love Be aware which was a world breakout finest vendor,” mentioned Randall.
“From the outset, Magpie Photos has shared my imaginative and prescient to seize the sunshine and shade on this story, and my need to translate the novel’s highly effective up to date messages for a recent viewers,” mentioned Gray. “I’m thrilled to be working with Lois and the crew.”
Magpie – identified for the likes of the Fifth Season-sold Swift Avenue and coming-of-age sequence Grace Beside Me – is working up a slate that additionally contains Blue Mountains-set unique thriller thriller sequence The Darkish Horse and the Hummingbird, which is from Lâle Teoman, and twisty dramedy Provenance, which is written by Giula Sandler and primarily based on the Melbourne art-world mysteries by Katherine Kovacic.
“We’ve got curated a slate focussed on impactful tales from Australian feminine creators that may have interaction and entertain Australian and worldwide audiences,” mentioned Randall, who based Magpie in 2014.
The tasks are being supercharged by the Display Australia Enterprise technique, which Randall mentioned is transferring into its “second stage” with the appointment of former Matter Studios scripted TV chief Phung and veteran Australian producer Eagger.
They’re advising on inventive and enterprise improvement, and be part of the recently-hired enterprise exec Matthew Kelly and improvement producers Claire Lindsay and Ree Evans, who job share.
L.A.-based Phung has over 25 years of expertise, most just lately as a marketing consultant at his personal Miquan Productions banner. He’s identified for his time as SVP of Authentic Collection at Matter Studios, the place he constructed out a scripted crew. Additional again, he was Slingshot International Media’s President of Scripted Tv and President of Whitney producer Bluegrass Tv.
He additionally labored as SVP, Inventive Affairs-Comedy for twentieth Century Fox TV, VP of Drama and VP of Comedy Collection on the Fox community, and started his profession at NBC Leisure in 1995. Amongst his improvement credit are How I Met Your Mom and Home, MD.
“I’m thrilled to function an advisor for Magpie and a producing accomplice with Lois on choose tasks,” he mentioned. “Magpie’s already proven a eager eye in figuring out recent voices with sequence like Swift Avenue. As international audiences and consumers embrace uniquely Australian sequence, it’s a good time for Magpie to deal with genuine feminine voices that may create the following large Australian international hit. I’m excited to affix the Magpie crew at Display Eternally to assist join them to international companions.”
Eagger, who co-founded Each Cloud Productions with Deb Cox to develop and produce scripted sequence, is taken into account one among Australia’s most well-respected TV makers. Amongst her credit is Miss Fisher’s Homicide Mysteries, which has offered into greater than 170 territories, and its spin-off, Ms Fisher’s Fashionable Homicide Mysteries. Randall produced Each Cloud’s 2014 Collection Mania official choice sequence The Gods of Wheat Avenue, which was on Netflix and the ABC.
