EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has landed the rights to Excessive Wire, the thriller novel from worldwide bestselling creator Candice Fox, for improvement as a TV sequence, sources inform Deadline.
Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is ready to supply underneath their first-look take care of Apple TV+. We hear the undertaking is in early improvement, with no writers but connected. Simonne Overend is ready to government produce.
An acclaimed Australian crime novelist, Fox’s Excessive Wire was printed final September. Taking readers on a high-octane journey by way of the Australian outback, the story facilities on Harvey Buck, a former soldier racing towards time to succeed in his dying girlfriend. Alongside the best way, he encounters Clare Holland, a traveler stranded after her automobile breaks down. Providing her a experience, Harvey unwittingly plunges them each right into a nightmare. They’re ambushed by a vengeful crew and compelled into bomb vests, compelled to commit a sequence of more and more harmful missions underneath risk of detonation.
Fox is the creator of 9 solo novels, three of which have gained Australia’s prestigious Ned Kelly Award. She additionally ceaselessly collaborates with James Patterson, and each considered one of their seven novels collectively have been New York Instances bestsellers. Beforehand, her Crimson Lake sequence was tailored into Troppo, a sequence for ABC Tv, starring Thomas Jane and Nicole Chamoun.
Scott Free just lately produced Scott’s Gladiator II, which grossed over $461 million worldwide, in addition to Alien: Romulus and the Apple sequence Prime Goal starring Leo Woodall. At present prepping Scott’s post-apocalyptic novel adaptation The Canine Stars, to star Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Man Pearce, the corporate’s upcoming slate additionally contains Apple initiatives like Echo Valley and Dope Thief, in addition to the sequence Alien: Earth and Blade Runner 2099.
Fox is repped by Left Financial institution Literary and Impartial Artist Group.
