EXCLUSIVE: In a aggressive scenario, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Tv have acquired the rights to Matthew Blake‘s debut crime thriller novel Anna O. The sequence adaptation is within the technique of being arrange at Netflix for growth, sources inform Deadline.
Blake is govt producing alongside Berlanti Prods.’ Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh Redman. Reps for Netflix and WBTV, the place Berlanti Prods. is beneath a deal, declined remark.
The high-concept thriller steeped in thriller follows the investigation of Dr. Benedict Prince, an skilled in sleep-related murder, into the case of the inexplicable Anna O, who murdered two individuals in chilly blood 4 years in the past and hasn’t woken up since.
Anna O is trying to succeed one other Berlanti Prods./WBTV thriller sequence for Netflix, hit You, which is headed into its fifth and ultimate season.
Blake burst into the literary scene with Anna O, which sparked a worldwide bidding conflict on submission in 2022 and secured three separate seven-figure offers alongside record-breaking auctions and pre-empts in a complete of 40 territories. In North America, the e-book was revealed on Jan. 2, 2024 by Harper Collins US/ Harper Canada to sturdy opinions.
For Blake, who labored in politics for ten years earlier than turning into a full-time author, sleep grew to become a spotlight based mostly on the truth that the typical individual spends 33 years of their lives doing it. He started intensive analysis into sleep-related crimes and the thriller sickness referred to as resignation syndrome that poses the query: if somebody commits homicide whereas sleepwalking, are they harmless or responsible?
That was the impetus for Anna O. In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding 25-year-old author with a vibrant future forward of her. Then, one evening, she stabbed two individuals to dying with no obvious motive and hasn’t woken up since. Her deep sleep is understood by neurologists as ‘resignation syndrome,’ a uncommon purposeful psychosomatic dysfunction. The tabloid press dubs her ‘Sleeping Magnificence.’
Quick ahead to the current day. Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an skilled within the discipline of sleep-related homicides. As Anna reveals the primary indicators of stirring, Dr. Benedict should decide what actually occurred that evening and whether or not or not she needs to be held criminally chargeable for her actions when she lastly wakes up.
Along with You, Berlanti Productions has the upcoming supernatural sequence Useless Boy Detectives at Netflix. The corporate is repped by CAA. Blake is repped by CAA and Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Movie Company.
