EXCLUSIVE: Hans Rosenfeldt, the formidable Swedish screenwriter behind The Bridge and Marcella, has found his next project: Adapting CJ Tudor’s new bestselling novel The Burning Girls into a TV series.Rosenfeldt will work with Marcella producer Buccaneer Media to adapt the book after the production company secured the rights in a competitive situation.
Tudor’s story became a Sunday Times bestseller after it was published in January.The book follows Reverend Jack Brooks and his daughter as they make a fresh start in Chapel Croft, but soon the close-knit community’s dark history begins to reveal itself.
Some 500 years ago, eight martyrs were burnt to death in Chapel Croft; 30 years ago two teenagers vanished without trace; and two months ago,
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