{"id":6642,"date":"2016-09-09T08:37:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/gail-berman-bringing-the-immortalists-to-tv\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:39:29","slug":"gail-berman-bringing-the-immortalists-to-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/gail-berman-bringing-the-immortalists-to-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Gail Berman Bringing The Immortalists to TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: The Jackal Group\u2019s Gail Berman and Joe Earley are planning to bring Chloe Benjamin\u2019s novel <em>The Immortalists<\/em>, which hasn&#8217;t even been published yet, to TV as a cable\u00a0drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Benjamin\u2019s first novel,\u00a0<i>The Anatomy of Dreams<\/i>,\u00a0received the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was long-listed for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The forthcoming <em>The Immortalists<\/em> is set to be\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">published by Putnam\/Penguin Random House in early 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The Immortalists<\/i> is a family love story spanning five decades, centering on four siblings who, as children, visit a fortune teller who predicts the day each will die. Subsequently, they find their lives spiraling and intertwining in dramatic ways, probing the line between destiny and choice, faith and magical thinking, reality and illusion, present and past, this world and the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Berman commented, \u201cIn <i>The Immortalists<\/i>, Chloe has crafted a rich and deeply engrossing portrait of the bond between siblings caught in an extraordinary situation that forces them to test the limits of destiny. This tremendous story will translate brilliantly into a captivating, larger-than-life television series.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted and honored to be working with The Jackal Group in bringing<i> The Immortalists <\/i>to life on screen,\u201d added Benjamin. \u201cAs a writer, there is no better feeling than knowing your characters are in such expert, passionate and creative hands.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Jackal Group, founded by Berman, is\u00a0a co-venture with the Fox Networks Group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: The Jackal Group\u2019s Gail Berman and Joe Earley are planning to bring Chloe Benjamin\u2019s novel The Immortalists, which hasn&#8217;t even been published yet, to TV as a cable drama.<\/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":[1290,1291,1289],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-gail-berman","tag-the-immortalists","tag-the-jackal-group","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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