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Pondering Screen Prospects For Lawrence Wright’s Hot Button Pandemic Novel ‘The End Of October’
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deadline.comBy Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Lawrence Wright’s pandemic novel The End of October is published today by Knopf, and Scott Free is tactfully in the slow process of setting up a movie or limited series that Ridley Scott will eye as a potential directing project.
After all, it was Scott’s suggestion to Wright about six years ago that unlocked the idea, after Scott read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and asked Wright if the societal breakdown in an apocalyptic event could actually happen.
Luckily, the breakdown depicted in Wright’s novel is much worse, as is the fast-spreading virus. The timing is coincidental, but the Wright book coming to the market as a film or limited TV series hasn’t contained this level of
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