Selome Hailu Bruna Papandrea’s production company Made Up Stories has acquired the rights to Marina Palmer’s thriller novel “The Russian Doll,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Made Up Stories will produce a limited series based on the novel in partnership with Endeavor Content.“The Russian Doll” is set in the dangerous and deceptive underworld of organized crime.
Packed with twists, intrigue, betrayal, romance and suspense, the series looks at Russian high-life in London and corruption at the heart of British politics that reaches all the way into the depths of the Secret Services.Palmer, a pseudonym for Imogen Robertson, published the novel via Hodder & Stoughton in 2021.
She is represented by Broo Doherty of DHH Literary Agency. Made Up Stories has previously produced TV projects including “The Undoing,” “Pieces of Her,” “Anatomy of a Scandal,” “Long Slow Exhale” and, in partnership with Endeavor Content, “Nine Perfect Strangers,” “Wolf Like Me” and “Roar.”Robertson will executive produce the series alongside Papandrea and Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky, Casey Haver, Sarah Harvey and Jodi Matterson.
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