Novel About Marilyn Monroe to Be Adapted Into Miniseries With Exec Producer Michel Merkt (Exclusive)
Berlin-based Barry Films (“Life”) has partnered with Marianne Maddalena (“Scream”) to option rights to “Marilyn 1962,” Sebastien Cauchon’s novel chronicling the last months in the life of icon Marilyn Monroe. The book is being developed as a 10-episode miniseries, with Michel Merkt exec-producing.
The critically acclaimed book, which was published by Editions Stock in France and Chuokoron Shinsha Publishing in Japan, sheds light on what Monroe’s life and psyche was like in the year of her death, through the perspectives of 12 people in her entourage – from her feared publicist to her controversial doctor.
Merkt, the co-producer of Golden Globe-winning “Elle” and Oscar-nominated “Toni Erdmann,” is executive-producing along with Maddalena, whose credits include the series “Scream” based on the horror franchise. Also producing are Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller, who were behind Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s “Between Us,” Anton Corbijn’s “Life,” and Anna Mastro’s “Walter.”
Cauchon, who besides writing books is head of communications at French...
The critically acclaimed book, which was published by Editions Stock in France and Chuokoron Shinsha Publishing in Japan, sheds light on what Monroe’s life and psyche was like in the year of her death, through the perspectives of 12 people in her entourage – from her feared publicist to her controversial doctor.
Merkt, the co-producer of Golden Globe-winning “Elle” and Oscar-nominated “Toni Erdmann,” is executive-producing along with Maddalena, whose credits include the series “Scream” based on the horror franchise. Also producing are Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller, who were behind Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s “Between Us,” Anton Corbijn’s “Life,” and Anna Mastro’s “Walter.”
Cauchon, who besides writing books is head of communications at French...
- 1/9/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety - TV News
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