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Thorne, a multi-BAFTA- and Tony Award-winning writer, previously adapted Philip Pullman\u2019s <em>His Dark Materials<\/em> as a series for the BBC and HBO. His upcoming projects include <em>The Eddy<\/em> for director Damien Chazelle and Netflix, as well as <em>Radioactive<\/em> and <em>The Secret Garden<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Global is a new venture focused on developing, financing and producing premium international scripted television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Thorne is attached to write and executive produce a retelling of Charles Dickens\u2019 classic novel A Tale of Two Cities for Legendary Global, the newly formed TV venture from Legendary and Chris Albrecht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":12831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3731,736,3732],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-a-tale-of-two-cities","tag-jack-thorne","tag-legendary-global","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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