Manori Ravindran International EditorAn adaptation of the forthcoming novel by “Brick Lane” author Monica Ali is in the works at the BBC, Variety can reveal.Sources indicate that All3Media-owned production company New Pictures is in early development on “Love Marriage” with the corporation.
The book is set to be published in February by Virago Press in the U.K. and Scribner in the U.S. It’s still unclear whether Ali will be adapting the book for TV herself, or whether other writers will be attached.Ali’s debut Man Booker Prize-nominated 2003 novel “Brick Lane,” which is named after the London neighborhood at the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi community, was made into a 2007 film (pictured) directed by Sarah Gavron and produced by Film4.
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