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Booker Prize-Winner ‘Sacred Hunger’ Series Adaptation In The Works From ‘Plan B’ Producer Chris Bongirne
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Sacred Hunger, the Booker Prize-winning novel by Barry Unsworth, is set for a small-screen remake.Plan B and Marshall exec producer Chris Bongirne and his production company Smokestack Films have teamed up with financier Stephen Leist to acquire the rights to the book, which follows the journey of a struggling young English doctor aboard 18th century slave ship the Liverpool Merchant.The book was published in 1992 and it shared the Booker Prize that year with Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, which went on to become Anthony Minghella’s Oscar-winning film starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas.Sacred Hunger begins when the ship is stricken by disease, watching as its crew and their cargo of African prisoners, meant
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