Minkie Spiro and Charlotte Stoudt are re-teaming. The pair are following up their collaboration on FX’s Emmy-winning series “Fosse/Verdon” by adapting Kate Summerscale’s book “The Haunting of Alma Fielding” into a TV series for New Pictures. Deadline broke the news.
Published in 2020 and named a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, the Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, and more, the book revisits a true ghost story. “In 1938, young housewife Alma Fielding begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Objects shatter, vanish, or take flight, assaulting Fielding and her family. Reporters see it with their own eyes. It is impossible but it is happening. And Alma seems to be at the center,” the source summarizes. “Jewish-Hungarian refugee Nandor Fodor investigates the events, determined to figure out if it is a hoax, a ghost, or Alma’s unconscious mind wrestling with a buried secret in the shadow of rising fascism across Europe.”
“The Haunting of Alma Fielding” was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a prestigious annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language.
Spiro directed one episode of “Fosse/Verdon” and Stoudt served as a writer and co-executive producer on the drama about director-choreographer Bob Fosse and actress-dancer Gwen Verdon. Spiro received a DGA nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series for her work on the series and Stoudt scored an Emmy nod for Outstanding Limited Series.
Spiro’s other credits include “The Plot Against America,” “Dead to Me,” and “Jessica Jones.”
Stoudt has written for “Homeland” and “House of Cards.”
Spiro and Stoudt are also working together on “Pieces of Her,” an upcoming Netflix thriller about a random act of violence that sets off an unexpected chain of events. Toni Collette stars in the series, which Spiro is directing and Stoudt is serving as showrunner on.
