‘The Fields’ Thriller Novel In Works For Television By Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories & Jennifer Todd Pictures
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke (A Discovery of Witches, Bancroft) attached as writer/showrunner.Young is the pseudonym of bestselling historical novelist, Robyn Young, and The Fields is her crime thriller debut.Per the book’s description: The Fields starts with a body – a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture.
When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend, connected to a dark past she thought she’d left behind.
The investigation grows complicated as more victims are found. Drawn deeper in, Riley soon discovers implications far beyond her Midwest town.Young and Brooke will executive produce alongside the Emmy-nominated Todd, Emmy-winning Papandrea and Made Up Stories’ Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver.
Made Up Stories and Jennifer Todd Pictures are producing in partnership with Endeavor Content, who brokered the book deal.Flatiron Books published The Fields in the US, and the UK rights, and a sequel, sold to Hodder & Stoughton in a major 6-figure deal and was published April 28, 2022.
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