Netflix to Adapt So Far Gone

Jess Walter’s novel So Far Gone is being adapted for Netflix by Mark Bomback (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Defending Jacob).

“Jess Walter is one of the great American storytellers, and So Far Gone is a propulsive, deeply humane novel that feels both urgent and timeless,” said executive producers Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan. “We are thrilled to be working with Mark Bomback, whose extraordinary talent for character-driven thrillers makes him the perfect partner to bring this story to the screen.”

Walter will executive produce the series, alongside Garbus, Cogan and Nellie Reed for Story Syndicate, and Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements and Alissa Bachner through Tomorrow Studios. Bomback will serve as showrunner, writer, and executive producer.

The series follows Rhys Kinnick, a journalist who’s pulled out of retirement when his daughter goes missing.

“We are thrilled to be adapting this incredibly relevant, affecting and entertaining novel,” said executive producers Adelstein, Clements and Bachner. “Kinnick is a character audiences will root for deeply as he unravels his own family mystery, which speaks so urgently to our time.”