Blackfella films' Jacob Hickey, Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale and Miranda Dear.
Blackfella Films is set to cast one of Australia's most prominent literary heroines as it moves into late stage development of an adaptation of Frank Moorhouse's Edith Trilogy.
This comes more than two years after Moorhouse optioned the right to Grand Days, Dark Palace and Cold Light to Blackfella Films, who have just finished shooting gay hate-crime drama Deep Water for SBS in Sydney.
The production will be a six by one-hour adaptation of the three books commonly known as the Edith Trilogy for Foxtel.
Blackfella Films producer, Miranda Dear, told IF, that Edith was the kind of heroine that everybody loved.
"It follows a young woman who goes off to work at the League of Nations in the 20s and takes her right the way through to the 60s in Canberra.
"In a way it explores the sort of birth of Australian national diplomacy on the world stage and it’s also very funny.
"That’s a big one and we are quite well developed on that."
Dear said the character of Edith had become a role model for professional woman.
"Anabelle Crabb did an event at the writers’ festival and she got a few people on the panel to discuss: What would Edith do?
"So any crisis you’re in; What would Edith do? As a character she has got this particular currency and I hope we have a chance with this character to really cast very interestingly."
Dear said Blackfella films was also in the early stages of development for a project with the working title: The Advisors.
"Jimmy McGovern is story producing and that’s being written by Stephen McGregor, who wrote quite a number of episodes of Redfern Now.
"We are just getting the first draft on that one so it’s very early, but it’s a six-part series.
"We will be looking to pitch to a broadcaster very soon. It has a working title called The Advisors, which is completely misleading, but that’s the working title and it's fantastic to have Jimmy working with us again as story producer."