New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth has joined Liane Moriarty, Emily Perkins, Zoë Foster Blake, and Jane Harper in having her work optioned by Made Up Stories, with her ninth novel 'Darling Girls' to become a television series.
Zoë Foster Blake is the latest Australian author to collaborate with Made Up Stories after the production company optioned her new novel 'Things Will Calm Down Soon'.
Blossom Films and Made Up Stories' upcoming dramedy 'The Last Anniversary' has been sold to the BBC in the UK and AMC Networks’ streamer Sundance Now (US) ahead of its premiere on Binge.
Liane Moriarty's newest novel 'Here One Moment' has already been earmarked for a screen adaptation through Made Up Stories and Nicole Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films, less than two months after its release.
Marcelle Lunam's Made Up Stories-produced romantic comedy 'Addition' will screen alongside New Zealand titles 'The Mountain' and 'Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End' as part of this year's Toronto International Film Festival Centrepiece program.
Made Up Stories has announced its next book-to-screen adaptation, partnering with producer and agent Lee-Anne Higgins and Simon Baker to option Emily Perkins’ 'Lioness'.
Made Up Stories managing director for Australia Jodi Matterson has departed the company after seven years, ending her creative partnership with fellow principals and married couple Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky.
After 'The Dry' made more than $20 million in 2021, it was perhaps inevitable the creative team would look to adapt the next book in Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk series, 'Force of Nature', for the big screen. Writer, director and producer Robert Connolly talks to IF about the follow up – and hints there may be a third film yet.