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‘The Subjugate’ Futuristic Crime Novel to Become Series Produced by Aquarius and Anonymous Content
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAustralia’s Aquarius Films has joined with the U.S.’s Anonymous Content to produce a futuristic crime thriller series “The Subjugate.” The series is an adaptation of a book of the same title by Amanda Bridgeman.The story follows a pair of detectives who, in 2040, are called on to investigate a series of murders in a religious community which has turned its back on technology and the modern world. The obvious suspects are formerly violent offenders who have been turned into servants, but the town’s puritan citizens are also hostile and keen to avoid having their society and its institutions probed.The original novel was published in 2018 by Angry Robot Books, and is the first part of a planned trilogy.