A24 Re-Teams With ‘Shuggie Bain’ Author Douglas Stuart For ‘Young Mungo’ TV Series
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The first new A24 project to emerge since the studio’s record-breaking Oscar haul last week is international TV series Young Mungo, which is being adapted by Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart from his acclaimed novel.
The series, about the dangerous first love of two working class men in Glasgow, is being shepherded by A24’s international heads Piers Wenger and Rose Garnett, and marks a coup for the pair given the stellar reviews and buzz around its author.
Published last year, Young Mungo is the second novel from Stuart after Booker prize-winner Shuggie Bain, which Euphoria and Everything Everywhere All At Once producer A24 is currently making into a series with the BBC.
A broadcaster has yet to be set on Young Mungo. The story follows Protestant Mungo and Catholic James who live in a hyper-masculine world.
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