{"id":17202,"date":"2022-07-14T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-adapt-freedom\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:46:08","slug":"tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow Studios to Adapt Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow Studios (<em>Physical<\/em>, <em>Snowpiercer<\/em>), an ITV Studios partnership, is set to adapt Jonathan Franzen\u2019s <em>Freedom<\/em> for the screen with Scott Free Productions (<em>The Good Fight<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The story centers on St. Louis couple Patty and Walter Berglund, exploring why their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door, why Walter took a job working with Big Coal after being an environmental lawyer and why their once perfect neighbor turned into the local fury.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Marnich (<em>The Affair<\/em>, <em>Big Love<\/em>) is on board to write the TV adaptation. Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements will executive produce the series through Tomorrow Studios, along with Franzen, Marnich and, through Scott Free Productions, Ridley Scott, David Zucker, Jordan Sheehan and Clayton Krueger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJonathan Franzen\u2019s <em>Freedom<\/em> is a laugh-out-loud, emotional knock-out of a novel, and we couldn\u2019t have conjured a better writer to adapt this material than the brilliant Melanie Marnich,\u201d said Scott. \u201cWe are very excited to bring this project to market with our partners at Tomorrow Studios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow Studios\u2019 CEO\/Partner Adelstein and President\/Partner Clements said, \u201cIn this ever-changing world, parents are just trying to keep up, and <em>Freedom<\/em> explores this incredible journey as only Jonathan Franzen can. We are thrilled to help bring this series to life, adapted by the incredibly talented Melanie Marnich in collaboration with the passionate, steadfast producers at Scott Free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf all my novels,<em> Freedom<\/em> seems to me the most directly pertinent to our current social and political moment\u2014globally, the fragile earth; nationally, the great red\/blue divide,\u201d Franzen said. \u201cI&#8217;m excited to be working with Scott Free and Tomorrow Studios on the adaptation, and I&#8217;ve felt from the beginning that Melanie is a perfect choice to write and run the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marnich added, \u201cIn <em>Freedom<\/em>, Jonathan Franzen created a masterpiece\u2014hilarious, heartbreaking, relentlessly relevant\u2014and I feel so fortunate to be diving into its world. It&#8217;s a dream project and it comes with a dream team: Scott Free and Tomorrow Studios. They are brilliant collaborators, and I&#8217;m thrilled to be creating this show with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow Studios (Physical, Snowpiercer), an ITV Studios partnership, is set to adapt Jonathan Franzen\u2019s Freedom for the screen with Scott Free Productions (The Good Fight).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":17203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1442,1256],"class_list":["post-17202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-scott-free-productions","tag-tomorrow-studios","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tomorrow Studios to Adapt Freedom - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tomorrow Studios to Adapt Freedom - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tomorrow Studios (Physical, Snowpiercer), an ITV Studios partnership, is set to adapt Jonathan Franzen\u2019s Freedom for the screen with Scott Free Productions (The Good Fight).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-14T14:46:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/TomorrowStudios-Freedom-0722.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/\",\"name\":\"Tomorrow Studios to Adapt Freedom - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-14T14:46:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-14T14:46:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/tomorrow-studios-to-adapt-freedom\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tomorrow Studios to Adapt Freedom\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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