Le film tiré de THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND (titre français: « Une Eolienne en Afrique », éditions Globe) sera diffusé sur la plateforme de streaming à partir du 1er mars 2019. Cette adaptation a été écrite, réalisée et jouée par Chiwetel Ejiofor (Twelve Years a Slave).
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Le dernier livre de Michael Lewis sera adapté par… Michelle et Barack Obama!
L’ancien couple présidentiel a signé un contrat de plusieurs années avec Netflix pour la production de séries documentaires. Dans ce cadre, ils ont mis une option sur les droits de THE FIFTH RISK, récemment paru aux Etats-Unis chez W.W. Norton, pour en faire une adaptation qui devrait permettre de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement du gouvernement américain.
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What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?
THE FIFTH RISK
by Michael Lewis
W.W. Norton, October 2018
« The election happened, » remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. « And then there was radio silence. » Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it’s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do. Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system―those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.
Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of “The Undoing Project”, “Liar’s Poker”, “Flash Boys”, “Moneyball”, “The Blind Side”, “Home Game” and “The Big Short”, among other works.
Harlan Coben et Netflix joignent leurs forces!
Après avoir déjà travaillé ensemble sur la série ‘Safe’, Harlan Coben a signé un accord de cinq ans avec Netflix pour développer des projets de films et de séries télévisées à partir de ses romans.
Harlan sera le producteur exécutif de chaque projet et il est prévu d’adapter quatorze titres, déjà parus ou à paraître, dont RUN AWAY, son prochain roman qui sera publié aux Etats-Unis en mars 2019. La série de thrillers qui mettent en scène Myron Bolitar ne fait pas partie de cet accord.
Pour en savoir plus: Entertainment Weekly
THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE sur Netflix !
Le roman YA de Stephanie Perkins sera adapté en film, grâce à une synergie entre le géant du streaming, le producteur de la série Stranger Things (21 Laps) et James Wan, réalisateur culte de films d’horreur tels que « The Saw » et « Insidious ».
Scream meets YA in this hotly-anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of “Anna and the French Kiss”
THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE
by Stephanie Perkins
Dutton Children’s Books, September 2017
One-by-one, the students of Osborne High are dying in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasing and grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and the hunt intensifies for the killer, the dark secrets among them must finally be confronted. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins returns with a fresh take on the classic teen slasher story that’s fun, quick-witted, and completely impossible to put down.
Rights sold: Brazil (Intrinseca), Spain (La Galera), Denmark (Carlsen Forlag), German (Arena Verlag), and Turkish (Yabanci Yayinlari).
Stephanie Perkins is the New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss. She has always worked with books–first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist.
Canal + et Netflix s’associent pour une nouvelle série d’Harlan Coben !
Le groupe Canal + et Netflix ont commandé SAFE, une série thriller originale d’Harlan Coben avec Michael C. Hall (le héros de « Dexter ») et Amanda Abbington (la femme de Watson dans la série « Sherlock Holmes »). Canal + diffusera la série de huit épisodes en clair sur C8 et Netflix sur sa plateforme internationale.
La productrice Nicola Schindler a déclaré: “The serialized nature of this, and Harlan’s way of storytelling, lends itself to streaming. He’s all about the hook of a story. After ‘The Five,’ he wanted to write something about family and how we build walls to keep out the bad people, but what if they’re on the inside? It’s about how far you’d go to protect your family.”