Nicole Kidman, Liane Moriarty & Bruna Papandrea Reunite For TV Adaptation Of Mystery Novel ‘Here One Moment’ After Fifth Season Wins Screen Rights
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Nicole Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky’s Made Up Stories are teaming on a series adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s new novel Here One Moment.
The project reunites Kidman, Papandrea and Moriarty after their collaborations on HBO’s acclaimed Big Little Lies, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers and the upcoming Australian series The Last Anniversary.
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Fifth Season, also a partner on Nine Perfect Strangers and The Last Anniversary, recently won the screen rights to the novel in a competitive situation and has set the project up with Blossom and Made Up Stories. Fifth Season has a partnership with the latter.
Mystery thriller Here One Moment, published last month by Crown Publishing, sees passengers on a plane journey later succumb to the clairvoyant predictions of a mysterious passenger known as ‘The Death Lady’.
The official synopsis reads: “Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die from “The Death Lady.” Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?”
While nothing has been set in stone we understand there’s a good chance Kidman will star in the adaptation, as she did in Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Last Anniversary.
“I’m so happy for the ongoing partnership with Liane and so grateful to count her amongst my closest friends and collaborators,” Kidman told us today.
This marks the first new project announced for Oscar and Emmy winner Kidman since she won Venice’s Best Actress prize last month for A24 thriller Babygirl.
We can also reveal today that UTA has just signed Australian author Moriarty for representation in film and TV, representing a coup for the agency given the writer’s huge global popularity. Moriarty has sold more than 20 million copies of her books worldwide (they’ve been translated into 40 languages). She is also known for book to screen adaptations including Peacocks’ Apples Never Fall and upcoming Sony movie The Husband’s Secret with Blake Lively.
Fiona Inglis of Curtis Brown Australia continues to represent Moriarty in publishing. Kidman is repped by CAA, Media Talent Group, Jackoway Austen.
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