Naman Ramachandran “Chernobyl” producer Sister is adapting the hit Audible original podcast “West Cork” for TV.Created by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde, “West Cork” is an investigation into the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
Du Plantier, a French film producer, was found near her holiday home around the West Cork town of Schull, a serene region on Ireland’s idyllic southern coast.
The case is widely known in Ireland, a dragged-out national fiasco and long source of morbid public fascination. This is the third iteration of the du Plantier in recent months.
Sky has “Murder at the Cottage,” directed by Jim Sheridan, in the works, while Lightbox is producing the same story for Netflix.
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