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Courtesy of KnopfProducer Scott Steindorff has acquired film and TV rights to Emily St. John Mandel‘s best-selling novel Station Eleven.
The project — a postapocalyptic drama that is set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse following a pandemic — will be produced by Steindorff and Dylan Russell. Station Eleven revolves around a Hollywood star, his would-be savior and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
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The producers paid six digits for the novel, which was optioned from Holly Frederick at Curtis Brown in New York, in a deal negotiated by Russell and Steindorff. There’s no talent attached yet. Steindorff, who is a producer on the upcoming Jane Got a Gun, will hire a writer first. A number of directors are circling the material, which was a New York Times best-seller for eight weeks. Station Eleven was one of the best-reviewed books of 2014, drawing raves from the Times, The New Yorker and others.
Steindorff also produced Jon Favreau‘s Chef last year.
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