{"id":6582,"date":"2016-08-26T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/the-luminaries-novel-being-adapted-for-bbc-two\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:09:28","slug":"the-luminaries-novel-being-adapted-for-bbc-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/the-luminaries-novel-being-adapted-for-bbc-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luminaries Novel Being Adapted for BBC Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BBC Two has commissioned Working Title Television to produce <em>The Luminaries<\/em>, based on the Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Novelist Eleanor Catton will pen the six-part drama. A 19th-century tale of adventure and mystery, set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand\u2019s South Island in the boom years of the 1860s gold rush, <em>The Luminaries<\/em> tells a story of love, murder and revenge, spotlighting men and women who traveled across the world to make their fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>Catton said: \u201cI feel absurdly lucky to be working with both the BBC and Working Title, whose work I have loved and learned from all my life. Learning to write for television has been a bit like learning a new musical instrument: the melody is more or less the same, but absolutely everything else is different. I&#8217;m having enormous fun, learning every day, and just so excited to see the world of the novel created in the flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Woodhead, the managing director of Working Title Television, said: \u201cI was spellbound when I first read Ellie\u2019s novel, so it\u2019s a privilege to be making the television adaption with her for the BBC. <em>The Luminaries<\/em> is an incredible story, which will translate beautifully on screen; all of human life is here, in all its darkness and its light, set against this stunning New Zealand backdrop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Holland, BBC Two&#8217;s channel editor, said: \u201c<em>The Luminaries<\/em> is one of the finest novels of recent years and Eleanor Catton&#8217;s own adaptation of her work is just as scintillating. It&#8217;s a work of startling originality told by a brilliant talent. I am very excited for our audience that this major new drama is coming to BBC Two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Richer, BBC&#8217;s acting controller of drama and executive producer, said: &#8220;Eleanor Catton&#8217;s is a major new voice for screen and we are proud to be making her first-ever work for TV\u2014an enthralling drama with a revelatory historical setting, in a landscape as unique and dazzling as her characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BBC Two has commissioned Working Title Television to produce The Luminaries, based on the Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[99,1248,1249],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-two","tag-the-luminaries","tag-working-title-television","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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