A couple of high profile TV series adaptations are on the way based on pre-existing works.
First up, Keshet Studios and Universal Television are developing a TV adaptation of Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s 2020 Sundance sci-fi comedy feature “Save Yourselves!”
The story follows a hip Brooklyn couple (John Reynolds, Sunita Mani) who seize the chance to head to an isolated cabin in the woods to unplug from their tech-heavy lives. They are caught unaware when aliens attack the Earth and they must figure out a way back to civilization.
Next, Amazon Studios is developing a TV series adaptation of Reeves Wiedeman’s New York Magazine article “Who Killed Tulum?”. Mehar Sethi (“BoJack Horseman”) will pen and executive produce for Annapurna, New York Magazine, and Vox Media Studios.
The story follows a spoiled Mexican party-boy and a high-strung American woman who each seek a new life in the burgeoning resort town of Tulum circa 2007 – a paradise of extravagance with a dark side. Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle will executive produce.
Finally, Pacesetter and Sreda Global have secured the TV rights to David Hill’s 2020 novel “The Vapors” with “The Loudest Voice” executive producer/showrunner Alex Metcalf attached to pen the series adaptation.
Set in Hot Springs, Arkansas, this is “the story of gangsters gone good, believers gone bad and the growth of Black Broadway, supported by a burgeoning African-American middle class in the center of the Jim Crow South”.
Sources: Bloody Disgusting, Vulture
