New Regency And Maximum Effort To Adapt ‘Eight Perfect Murders’ With Harry Bradbeer Set To Direct
EXCLUSIVE: New Regency and Maximum Effort are teaming on a feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling novel Eight Perfect Murders, having recently acquired rights to the Peter Swanson novel, attaching Harry Bradbeer to direct. The novel was published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.
“I’m delighted to be working with Maximum Effort and New Regency on this truly remarkable project — a witty, surprising mischievous thriller, that’s as fun as it is soulful,” Bradbeer said.
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The news follows Maximum Effort’s record-breaking box office success with Deadpool & Wolverine and the upcoming fourth season its Emmy-winning docuseries Welcome to Wrexham. New Regency’s recent and upcoming film and TV slate includes The Bikeriders, Steve McQueen’s Blitz and Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith which is up for 16 Emmy nominations.
The Eight Perfect Murders novel follows a bookshop owner who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation when a clever killer begins to use his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders as inspiration. Swanson is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of 11 novels including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year.
His books have been translated into over 30 languages, and his stories, poetry and features have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian and Asimov’s Science Fiction. Swanson’s forthcoming novel, Kill Your Darlings, will be released in 2025.
Bradbeer’s work as the director and EP on both seasons of Fleabag earned him multiple Emmy, BAFTA, PGA, Golden Globe and Critics Choice awards. He also garnered a BAFTA Best Director nomination for the pilot of Killing Eve and directed the pilot of Golden Globe-winning series Ramy for A24/Hulu.
Most recently, Bradbeer directed the feature films Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2 for Netflix and Legendary. He is currently in pre-production on the live action series Spider-Man Noir for Prime Video with Nicholas Cage starring. Harry will EP and direct the first two episodes. Lord & Miller and Amy Pascal are producing, with Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot serving as co-showrunners and executive producing.
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