EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Egan’s best-selling novels A Visit from the Goon Squad and its sequel The Candy House are getting the TV treatment in a big way as A24 has optioned the rights to the books with Olivia Wilde attached to direct the series.
Wilde also will exec produce along with Jennifer Fox. A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and is a set of 13 interrelated stories with a large set of characters all connected to Bennie Salazar, a record company executive, and his assistant, Sasha.
Her bestselling 2022 follow-up novel The Candy House revisits some of the characters and their progeny. Wilde has become one of the more in-demand directors in town, and this will mark her first major venture into television as a director.
While A24 dominated the Oscars last month, its television unit also has been delivering acclaimed hits, most recently with the Netflix series Beef that premiered last weekend.
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