EXCLUSIVE: Dynamic Television is plotting to turn George Dawes Green‘s Southern Gothic crime novel The Kingdoms of Savannah into a TV series.
The transatlantic production house has optioned the rights to the book, with writer Sheri Holman (George & Tammy, Palm Royale) attached to write a pilot script.
She will also be showrunner and executive producer. Dan March and Carrie Stein will EP for Dynamic, which is known for series such as Harry Wild, The Sommerdahl Murders and Drops of God.
The novel is set the hauntingly beautiful but treacherous landscape of Georgia, where on a balmy Southern night at a local watering hole, a murder and mysterious disappearance set the stage for an unlikely detective — the doyenne of Savannah society, Morgana Musgrove.
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