Fay Weldon’s Supernatural Novel ‘Puffball’ Being Developed For TV 20 Years After Nicolas Roeg Movie Starring Kelly Reilly & Donald Sutherland
BBC Studios-backed Firebird has optioned the 1980 novel and attached Olivier Award winner Morgan Lloyd Malcom to write the series.
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Supernatural Novel ‘Puffball’ Set for TV Adaptation
Fay Weldon’s supernatural novel Puffball has been optioned by Firebird Pictures for a TV adaptation, Deadline reports. Olivier Award-winning playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Netflix’s “Obsession“) is attached to write the series. Published in 1980, Puffball was previously adapted into the 2007 film of the same name by Nicolas Roeg. The novel follows “a young London couple, Liffey and Richard, who move to the country with the expectation of havin…
Fay Weldon’s Supernatural Novel ‘Puffball’ Being Developed For TV 20 Years After Nicolas Roeg Movie Starring Kelly Reilly & Donald Sutherland
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly 20 years after the Nicolas Roeg movie starring Kelly Reilly and Donald Sutherland, a small screen version of Fay Weldon’s supernatural novel Puffball is in development. Deadline understands Firebird Pictures has optioned the 1980 novel, with Morgan Lloyd Malcom, an Olivier Award-winning playwright who penned Netflix thriller Obsession, attached to write. Fay Weldon’s Puffball follows a young London couple, Liffey and Richar…
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