EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ is entering The Doll Factory.The UK wing of the streamer has ordered an adaptation of the Sunday Times bestselling novel, a dark thriller story of obsession centred around a doll painter and her twin sister.Marcella, Crime and Whistable Pearl indie Buccaneer Media is attached to produce the six-part thriller dramas, which will join the line-up of Paramount+ Originals available on the streaming service for audiences in the UK and Ireland.
Sebastian Cardwell, Deputy Chief Content Officer at Paramount UK greenlit the show.Furthermore, public broadcasters SBS in Australia and New Zealand’s TVNZ have pre-bought the series, which rising writer Charley Miles is adapting from Elizabeth Macneal’s debut novel.
Cineflix, which is a partner in Buccaneer, is attached as international distributor.Set in London in 1850, The Doll Factory tells the story of Iris, who paints dolls for a living alongside her twin sister, Rose, and dreams of becoming an artist and by night secretly paints herself naked.
Silas is a taxidermist who owns a shop filled with his creations. He dreams of one day finding an item so unique he will be catapulted to fame.
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