RED Production Company to Adapt John Boyne’s The Echo Chamber

RED Production Company has secured the rights to John Boyne’s novel The Echo Chamber, with plans to turn the book into a 10×30-minute returnable series.

Boyne himself will adapt the novel for the screen. The Echo Chamber follows the Cleverley family, who live a gilded life, not realizing how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. Five days is all it takes for their lives to come crashing down.

Sarah Doole, CEO of RED Production Company, said: “I have always loved John Boyne’s beautiful writing, but The Echo Chamber was the most brilliant surprise. It is hilariously funny—a gasp-inducingly caustic and biting satire about cancel culture and modern Britain. It is a story that is absolutely for now and it takes a writer of John’s skill and confidence to pull it off. The wildly outrageous and vivid Cleverleys are a family begging to be brought to screen and their fall from grace is full of the most unexpected twists and surprises. It was described as a ‘British Schitt’s Creek on acid’—and it is! We are so excited to be aiding John in bringing his highly acclaimed novel to the small screen. It is exactly the kind of distinct and bold drama that I want RED to be making.”

Boyne added: “I’m delighted to be working with RED Production Company on bringing The Echo Chamber to television. Having produced so many of my favorite dramas over recent years, I know my novel is in safe and talented hands. I’m excited to enter the world of scriptwriting too, a new departure for me and one I hope to build on over the years ahead. The Echo Chamber was written after I received a particularly brutal mauling at the hands of Twitter trolls and I chose to turn that experience into a comedy. To that end, my plan is to fill every episode with as many laughs as I can!”