Buccaneer Media Wins Adaptation Rights to The Burning Girls

Buccaneer Media has won the option rights to dramatize C.J. Tudor’s The Burning Girls, with Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge, Marcella) attached as screenwriter.

The Burning Girls is set in the town of Chapel Croft, where eight martyrs were burnt to death 500 years ago, two teenagers vanished without a trace 30 years ago, and two months ago, a vicar committed suicide. Rev. Jack Brooks and her teenage daughter Flo have moved there for a fresh start, but before long Flo becomes plagued by visions of burning girls and they end up on the receiving end of threatening messages.

Tony Wood, Richard Tulk-Hart and Anna Burns will executive produce for Buccaneer Media and are already in early discussions with potential broadcast and streaming partners.

Tony Wood, joint CEO of Buccaneer Media, said: “The Burning Girls is a terrific story; it’s very easy to see how C.J. Tudor has risen to the top of the charts in pretty short order. Her ability to tell a truly gripping story is exceptional. We’re thrilled to be pairing her with one of the great European television dramatists in Hans Rosenfeldt.”

Tudor said: “I am absolutely over the moon that The Burning Girls will be lighting up the small screen! Buccaneer Media has such an exciting vision for the book and the absolute icing on the cake—or twig doll on the pyre—is that the awesome Hans Rosenfeldt will be penning the adaptation. I could not be more thrilled, or honored!”

Hans Rosenfeldt said: “I’ve been longing to get back to London and to work with Buccaneer again and when Tony sent me a copy of The Burning Girls I thought ‘Yes, this is what we should do!’ I loved the book, its characters, the setting, the horror elements and the many twists and surprises and I’m really looking forward to turning it into edge-of-your-seat television.”