Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: HBO won a wild auction that sources said saw 17 bidders vying for The Vanishing Half, the novel by Brit Bennett that is currently atop The New York Times bestseller list.
Sources said HBO will pay low seven-figures for the book and the author will be executive producer of what HBO will develop as a limited series.The novel focuses on the Vignes sisters, identical twins who, after growing up together in a small, southern black community, run away at age sixteen.
It’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities.
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