Paramount+ Orders ‘The Doll Factory’Adaptation

EXCLUSIVE:Paramount+ has enteredThe Doll Factory.

The UK wing of the streamer has ordered an adaptation of the Sunday Times bestselling novel, a dark thriller story of obsession centred around a doll painter her twin sister.

Marcella, Crime andThe Whistable Pearlindie Buccaneer Media is attached to produce the six-part thriller dramas, which will join the line-up of Paramount+ Originals available on the streaming service for audiences in the UK and Ireland. Sebastian Cardwell (Deputy Chief Content Officer, Paramount UK) approved the show.

Furthermore, public broadcasters SBS in Australia and New Zealand’s TVNZ have pre-bought the series, which rising writer Charley Miles is adapting from Elizabeth Macneal’s debut novel. Cineflix, a partner in Buccaneer is attached as an international distributor.

In London, 1850. The Doll FactoryThe story of Iris tells the story about how she paints dolls alongside her twin sister Rose. She dreams of becoming an art teacher and secretly paints naked at night. Silas, a taxidermist, owns a shop that sells his creations. He hopes to find an item that will make him famous. Louis is a painter, and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He is looking for his next inspiration. She is given the chance to escape and begin a new life when she meets Silas and Louis. She must leave her sister and her reputation to make it happen. Then she must go out into the unknown. But as Iris’ world expands, a story of dark obsession begins to unfold.

Sacha Polak (Hanna, Dirty GodSuzanne McAuley (director) is currently on the board.Magpie Murders, MaigretJulie Harkin (producer) and? (audience member)You may be destroyed,Becoming Elizabeth) is casting director.

The Doll Factory combines intrigue with universal themes of passion and obsession to tell a compelling story which will resonate with our Paramount+ audience. We are delighted to work with Buccaneer Media as we continue to build our offering of Paramount+ Originals with UK storytelling talent,” said Paramount UK’s Cardwell.

London-based producer Buccaneer is behind another new Paramount+ commission, The Burning Girls, and NRK’sMarianne, So Long!, which explores Leonard Cohen’s relationship with use Marianne Ihlen, as Deadline revealed in April. It is also in developmentIn Memoriam with Miles, with Participant Media co-producing the original drama, and two Irvine Welsh novels: The Sex Lives of Siamese Twinsand The Blade Artist.

“The combination of debut author Elizabeth Macneal with first time screenwriter Charley Miles is what this company is all about: emergent talent who will take the world by storm,” said Buccaneer co-CEOs said Tony Wood Richard Tulk-Hart in a statement. “To have SBS and TVNZ join Paramount+ at such an early stage is testament to the incredible writing of Charley. Cineflix also saw the potential of this very early on and after their success with our previous two shows we’re very happy to have them as distribution partners as well.”

“It is the most surreal and wonderful thing to have my novel turned into a TV series,”Elizabeth Macneal. “When I wrote the book, I felt I knew each character intimately – and what a treat it will be to see them fully brought to life, from Iris’s fire and zest to be a painter, to the taxidermist Silas’s hunger to have his name recognised. I always said I wanted to work with a screenwriter who was able to reimagine my novel in a new way for a new audience, and I am stunned by the wonder that is Charley Miles’s script.

Wood, Anna Burns, and Tulk Hart for Buccaneer are the executive producers, as well as Miles and Macneal.

The Doll FactoryParamount+’s latest drama commission from the UK joins an expanding list of UK production companies that includes Moscow, A Gentleman, The Blue, The Ex-Wife, The Burning Girls, The Sexy Beast Flatshare.

‘The Doll Factory’ It was a bestseller in The Times and Central Recorderday Times hardback and has been translated into over 30 languages. Author Macneal is represented by Madeleine Milburn at the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency.

Paramount+ was launched in the UK & Ireland on June 22,

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