EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has landed the rights to High Wire, the thriller novel from international bestselling author Candice Fox, for development as a TV series, sources tell Deadline.
Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is set to produce under their first-look deal with Apple TV+. We hear the project is in early development, with no writers yet attached. Simonne Overend is set to executive produce.
An acclaimed Australian crime novelist, Fox’s High Wire was published last September. Taking readers on a high-octane journey through the Australian outback, the story centers on Harvey Buck, a former soldier racing against time to reach his dying girlfriend. Along the way, he encounters Clare Holland, a traveler stranded after her car breaks down. Offering her a ride, Harvey unwittingly plunges them both into a nightmare. They are ambushed by a vengeful crew and forced into bomb vests, compelled to commit a series of increasingly
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