EXCLUSIVE: A24 UK looks to have emerged victorious among more than a dozen suitors to option rights to Nick Brucker’s upcoming novel White Smoke, with plans to adapt it into a TV series. A24 will produce alongside Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch and his SunnyMarch production company. Cumberbatch is also attached to star.
White Smoke, a heist novel to be published in 2027, is set among a group of duplicitous con men and thieves determined to steal the Vatican’s most remarkable treasures during a papal conclave.
Sources say that even though the book won’t hit shelves till next year, the town was buzzing for the property, with various suitors chasing for both film and TV. Since the book is the first in a series, the sellers felt the TV route made more sense, and A24 and SunnyMarch’s offer was just too good to pass up.
Nick Brucker is the pseudonym
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