Paramount Television Studios has acquired the television rights to the book “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides in a competitive situation, Variety has learned exclusively. The book was fi…
has acquired the television rights to the book “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides in a competitive situation,The book was first published in 2002 and has gone on to sell more than 4 million copies. It also won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. It was previously in the works as a series at HBO back in 2009.
The story follows Calliope “Cal” Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family as they travel from their tiny village to Prohibition-era Detroit, eventually witnessing the race riots of 1967 before moving out to suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Over the course of the story, Cal discovers that she is really a he, tracing his transformation to a genetic condition that runs through the family.is attached to write the series with Sam Taylor Johnson onboard to direct.
Paramount TV Studios’ current shows include Amazon’s “Jack Ryan” starring John Krasinski, Apple’s “Home Before Dark” and “Defending Jacob,” and “The Haunting” anthology series at Netflix.
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