HBO Lands the Rights to Adapt Novel EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE Into Limited Series
In a competitive bidding war, HBO has landed the rights to adapt the novel Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone from Australian comedian and author Benjamin Stevenson. The story will be turned into a limited series, which tells the following story:
In Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, three years ago, when teacher Ernie Cunningham witnessed his brother Michael kill someone, he immediately turned him in to the police. Shunned by his well-known criminal family for this betrayal, they have now invited him to a reunion at a snowbound mountain retreat. But when the dead body of an unidentified man is found frozen on the slopes, Ernie decides to investigate the truth behind his death — and the suspicious involvement of his murderous family.
Stevenson’s first novel, Greenlight, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, and published in the U.S. and UK. His second novel, Either Side of Midnight, was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Original Paperback. His novella Find Us was an internationally bestselling audiobook. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Stevenson’s third novel, will be published March 29 by Penguin Random House Australia, which is handling international publishing rights, and August 18 by Penguin Random House (Michael Joseph) in the UK. An auction for U.S. publishing rights is underway.
This sounds like a fun thriller. HBO has had a good track record in recent years with adapting novels like this into star-studded limited series with riveting and compelling story telling. I’m looking forward to this one.
via: Deadline