Steve Lightfoot Developing ‘The String Diaries’ TV Adaptation With ‘Geek Girl’ Producer RubyRock & Sony Studios
28.05.2024 - 11:11
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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Lightfoot is developing a TV adaptation of Stephen Lloyd Jones’ The String Diaries with Geek Girl producer RubyRock Pictures and Sony Studios.
RubyRock boss Zoë Rocha revealed the early-stage project to Deadline alongside an adaptation of Justin Somper’s Vampirates book series, while lifting the lid on Netflix‘s upcoming Geek Girl adaptation.
Lightfoot, who show-ran Apple TV+’s Shantaram and Netflix’s The Punisher, is currently penning the pilot and the project doesn’t yet have a buyer. Sony Studios is also attached.
The String Diaries was published a decade ago and is a supernatural thriller following a family that come into possession of diaries handed down from mother to daughter since the 19th century. Lloyd Jones’ debut extends from the present day to Oxford in the 1970s to Hungary at the turn of the 19th century, tracing back to a man from an ancient royal family with a consuming passion.
Lightfoot is also working on MGM+/Prime Video’s Spider-Man spin-off Noir, a live action series that is set to star Nicolas Cage.
Books that have “slipped the cracks”
The String Diaries project speaks to RubyRock’s strategy to adapt novels that may have “slipped the cracks five to 10 years ago” in what is an intensely competitive book market, Rocha said. “Everything is going on pre-empts and is so beyond our price bracket but there is so much content out there that slips through,” she added. “[Slightly older novels] are a really good place to look.”
With this in mind, RubyRock is developing a series adaptation of the Vampirates novels, six books published between 2005 and 2011 about twins who get separated at sea and are picked up by two very different ships. RubyRock is working with LA’s Capricornia Content
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