THE NIX To TV
The glittering era of cinematic TV adaptations continues with the news that movie star maven Meryl Streep and Star Wars director J.J. Abrams are teaming up to produce a small screen limited series of The Nix by Nathan Hill (PRH/Knopf; RH Audio/BOT; OverDrive Sample).
Deadline Hollywood reports the deal is with Warner Bros Television which will be able to auction the finished project to the highest bidder.
New York Magazine has already called the debut novel “One of This Fall’s Buzziest.”
As we noted, it racked up accolades when it hit the shelves with People magazine making it a pick for the week, calling it “as good as the best Michael Chabon or Jonathan Franzen.”
Entertainment Weekly was also impressed, giving it an A- and calling it “a big fat cinder block of a book brainy enough to wipe away the last SPF-smeared vestiges of a lazy summer but so immediately engaging, too, that it makes the transition feel like a reward.”
Early days yet and no word on who will star opposite Streep in the role of her on-screen son, Samuel Andresen-Anderson.