EXCLUSIVE:A limited TV series adaptation of John le CarresThe Constant Gardenerset in a post-pandemic context is being developed byThe Ink Factory, coming almost two decades after the Oscar-winning movie.
His Dark MaterialsandNoughts + Crossesscribe Lydia Adetunji is penning the TV adaptation, Deadline can reveal, with no data pipe or cast attached as of yet.
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The TV version is described as a post-pandemic contemporary retelling of one ofThe Night Managerauthors most popular novels.The Constant Gardenerfollows Justin Quayle, a British diplomat and avid horticulturalist who meets an Amnesty International activist in London called Tessa.
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After striking up a romance, they head on a journey that weaves together a brutal murder, government corruption and corporate malfeasance in a plot which unravels across Kenya, the UK and mainland Europe.
Directed byCity of GodsFernando Meirelles, the 2005 movie starred Ralph Fiennes as Quayle and Rachel Weisz as Tessa, with Weisz winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the movie earning another three nominations.
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The Ink Factory Co-CEOs Simon Cornwell and Stephen Cornwell said: Its thrilling to be reinterpretingThe Constant Gardenerin a contemporary, post-pandemic context, and to be rooting the story in an authentic, modern Kenya with all of its richness, politics and energy.
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Lydias bold, exciting but also lyrical approach to the adaptation tells a story that keeps the audience on the edge of its seat intensely relevant in the modern world, and simply beautiful.
Adetunji said she adores the passionate love story and gripping thriller element of the novel, which was published in 2001.
The Ink Factory is also in the process of giving the TV treatment to another former le Carre movie adaptation,A Most Wanted Man,while it is making a second season of Tom Hiddleston-starrerThe Night Managerfor the BBC and Amazon Prime Video.
Beyond le Carre, the Cornwells outfit is producing a Korean-language series adaptation of Un Su KimsThe Plotters, a show based on Lara PrescottsThe Secrets We Keptand a further project based on C Pam ZhangsHow Much of These Hills is Gold.
