EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing an adaptation of Elizabeth Wetmore’s novel Valentine – set in 1976 in a West Texas oilfield town – with Salma Hayek and My Brilliant Friend exec producer Jennifer Schuur.Deadline understands that HBO won the rights to the book in a competitive situation after it was published in March and debuted at number two on the New York Times’ Bestsellers list in the middle of the start of the global pandemic.
It is being developed as a limited series.Schuur, who was a writer and producer on Netflix’s Unbelievable and is co-showrunner of HBO’s upcoming version of In Treatment, will write the pilot and will exec produce with Salma Hayek and Jose Tamez, who runs Hayek’s Ventanarosa Productions, and author Wetmore.It is
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