Paramount Television Studios (“Jack Ryan,” “Defending Jacob”) has acquired the TV rights to Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 novel “Middlesex”.
The story follows Calliope ‘Cal’ Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family as they leave their tiny village and go to Prohibition-era Detroit.
Eventually they witness the race riots of 1967 before moving out to suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Over the course of the story, Cal discovers that he is intersex, a genetic condition that runs through the family.
David Manson (“Ozark,” “House of Cards”) is attached to write the series with Sam Taylor Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey,” “A Million Little Pieces”) onboard to direct. The project was previously in the works as a series at HBO back in 2009, but no network or streaming service is attached to the current version.
Eugenides’ debut novel “The Virgin Suicides” was adapted into the famed Sofia Coppola film in 1999.
Source: Variety
