EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse Tv is doubling down on creator Clémence Michallon, securing rights to her upcoming second novel Our Final Resort. The indie studio beforehand acquired Michallon’s best-selling debut thriller, The Quiet Tenant, which is in improvement as a restricted sequence with author, showrunner and govt producer Anthony E. Zuiker (CSI) and Charlize Theron’s Secret Menu. As with the difference of The Quiet Tenant, Michallon will govt produce on Our Final Resort.
Publishing July 8 by Knopf, Our Final Resort follows Frida and Gabriel, a pair of estranged siblings searching for a contemporary begin at a luxurious resort within the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. Their reunion is interrupted when a girl who was vacationing along with her highly effective, a lot older husband is discovered murdered. When the native police arrive and suspicion shortly falls on Gabriel, Frida is pressured to revisit recollections from their upbringing in a cloistered cult in upstate New York, their dramatic escape, and the scandal that adopted.
Alternating between previous and current timelines, Our Final Resort builds towards a shattering climax that uncovers the destiny of the murdered Ara visitor and poses the query: how properly will we ever actually know these we love?
“Clémence Michallon has delivered one other visceral and thrilling page-turner with Our Final Resort and we jumped on the likelihood to work along with her once more,” mentioned Melissa Aouate, President, Blumhouse Tv. “Her storytelling brings an actual depth of character and sense of place that we predict will translate properly to the display screen.”
A global bestseller, The Quiet Tenant was a New York Occasions Greatest Crime Guide of the Yr and a GMA Buzz Decide.
“I couldn’t be happier to reunite with Blumhouse Tv for Our Final Resort,” mentioned Michallon. “They’ve been large artistic companions on The Quiet Tenant, and I can’t wait to see what they do with this new story. I simply know that Frida and Gabriel — the siblings on the middle of this new story — are in excellent fingers.”
Michallon was repped within the deal by Nameless Content material and Stephen Barbara at Inkwell Administration.