The television industry has been buzzing with various female-led and -driven adaptations. There’s Hulu’s adaptation of Celeste Ng’s “Little Fires Everywhere,”, a Serinda Swan-starrer based on M.R. Hall’s novel “Coroner,” and, just recently announced, a Bruna Papandrea-produced series inspired by Karin Slaughter’s latest novel, “Pieces of Her.” Now, two more adaptations are on the way. “Before Sunrise” star and co-writer Julie Delpy is adapting Israeli web series “Confess” for AMC, and “Pose” exec producer Sherry Marsh has snagged the rights to Cristina Alger’s forthcoming thriller novel “The Banker’s Wife”
Delpy’s project, “Confess,” delves into online hookups and explores how digital media fuses the public and private, according to Variety. The AMC project moves “Confess” from the setting of the web series, Tel Aviv, to the U.S.
Multi-hyphenate Delpy will write and exec produce “Confess.”
She’s received Oscar nods for her writing on “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight. Her writing-directing credits include “The Countess,” “2 Days in Paris,” and “2 Days in New York.” She’s currently filming “My Zoe,” a family drama that she’s directing, wrote, and stars in.
Per Deadline, Marsh and her production company, Marsh Productions and Entertainment, have teamed up with Federation Entertainment to bring Alger’s third novel to the screen. Released last month, “The Banker’s Wife” follows a woman widowed after a plane crash in the Alps. Realizing that the death of her banking insider-husband was far from an accident, she is left to deal with his past, secrets, and enemies.
In addition to Ryan Murphy’s “Pose,” Marsh exec produces History Channel’s “Vikings,” which is in its sixth season. She has multiple adaptations in the works, including a series based on Bernard Cornwell’s “The Warlord Chronicles” and an adaptation of Deepak Chopra’s “Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment.”
The most recent episode of “Pose” — which just snagged a Season 2 renewal — made history: its director and writer, Janet Mock, became the first trans woman of color to write and direct a TV episode.
