Netflix has ordered The Age Of Innocence, a restricted sequence primarily based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Emma Frost (The White Queen, The White Princess) has penned the difference and can function govt producer and showrunner on the Chernin Leisure manufacturing.
The sequence was quietly greenlighted earlier this 12 months and has been prepping for a fall begin of manufacturing in Europe for a few months now. Netflix wouldn’t verify the pickup to Deadline, as a substitute opting to announce it on World E-book Day.
A recent tackle Edith Wharton’s traditional novel of forbidden love in nineteenth century New York, The Age Of Innocence is a will-they/received’t-they love triangle exploring themes of freedom, responsibility, identification and love in all its varieties.
The challenge is clearly geared towards the extensive international fanbase of Netflix’s hit interval romance drama Bridgerton, additionally a ebook adaptation.
Frost govt produces with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Tracey Prepare dinner of Chernin Leisure, a part of the North Highway Firm.
Wharton’s novel was notably tailored by Martin Scorsese within the 1993 Columbia Photos function starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Miriam Margolyes.
