Oprah picks James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' for book club

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Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski Sister, the global content company co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has won the rights to James McBride’s Deacon King Kong to develop as a television series.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSister Pictures, the content company headed by Elisabeth Murdoch, Staci Snider and Jane Featherstone, has nabbed the television rights to James McBride’s novel “Deacon King Kong.”The announcement comes one day after “Deacon King Kong” was named as the latest Oprah’s Book Club selection.McBride will pen the TV adaptation of “Deacon King Kong,” set in 1969 when a fumbling, comical old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing

Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride’s novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon. But it also pays tribute to community and to McBride’s own childhood in a Brooklyn project.

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