Wiip Options ‘Babel’ Fantasy Novel For Screen Adaptation With Temple Hill Producing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: R.F. Kuang‘s bestselling fantasy novel Babel is in the works for the screen. Independent studio wiip (The Mare of Easttown, The Summer I Turned Pretty) has optioned the novel for television/film adaptation with Temple Hill Entertainment (Twilight) producing.
Babel is a historical fantasy epic that magically reimagines 19th-century Oxford as the home to the mysterious Royal Institute of Translation, or Babel, whose secrets power the British empire.
Babel follows Robin Swift, a brilliant Chinese orphan who is accepted into the Institute. Swift is quickly immersed in the enchanting world of Babel, only to uncover the institute’s dark underbelly.
Faced with the moral question of using his newfound abilities for the institute’s imperialistic goals or fighting against the very system that raised him, Swift must navigate a treacherous path between right and wrong, where every word can be a weapon.
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