Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski Sister, the global content company co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has won the rights to James McBride’s Deacon King Kong to develop as a television series.
The praised novel was just named by Oprah Winfrey yesterday as her latest Book Club Selection.McBride will pen the adaptation and executive produce with Brian Taylor alongside Sister’s Carolyn Strauss and Kate Fenske, with Jonah Disend for Complementary Colors set as a producer.Deacon King Kong takes place in September 1969 and follows the life of a community in a Brooklyn housing project.
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