“Say Nothing” author Patrick Radden Keefe‘s latest novel is being developed for TV before it’s even hit shelves.
A24‘s U.K. outpost has acquired the rights to “London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth,” set to publish on April 7, in what’s said to be have been a competitive bidding process.
The book, being published by Doubleday and Pan Macmillan, tells the true story of Zac Brettler, a London teenager who died under mysterious circumstances in 2019. After his death, his parents discovered he had been living a double life, posing as the billionaire son of a Russian oligarch. As they investigate what happened, and who there son really was, they are drawn into the dark underworld beneath London’s glittering surface.
Keefe, who will executive produce the series, originally began writing about the story in the New Yorker in 2024, with interest growing with news of the book’s expansion. The Brettler family are actively involved in the upcoming series.
Keefe won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2019 for “Say Nothing,” and executive produced the acclaimed Emmy and Bafta-nominated limited series at FX. He is also an executive producer on the Netflix limited series “Painkiller,” directed by Peter Berg and produced by Eric Newman and based on Keefe’s New Yorker article “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” (which he followed up with the 2021 book “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty”).
He is represented by Anna DeRoy at WME for dramatic rights, Jason Burns and David Park at UTA for screenwriting, and attorney Andy Galker at Jackoway Austen.
“London Falling” marks the second book of Keefe’s being adapted for screen at A24 , which is also developing “The Snakehead,” about a notorious New York Chinatown human smuggling ring.
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