Sister Production Company Buys TV Rights to James McBride’s Novel ‘Deacon King Kong’
Dave McNary Film ReporterSister Pictures, the content company headed by Elisabeth Murdoch, Staci Snider and Jane Featherstone, has nabbed the television rights to James McBride’s novel “Deacon King Kong.”The announcement comes one day after “Deacon King Kong” was named as the latest Oprah’s Book Club selection.McBride will pen the TV adaptation of “Deacon King Kong,” set in 1969 when a fumbling, comical old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range.