Continuing Netflix’s substantial success within the Young Adult style, Netflix is reportedly eying an adaptation of Amber Dermont’s 2012 novel, The Starboard Sea.
Per GoodReads, right here’s the official description of the 2012 novel:
“Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and compelling novel about a young man navigating the depths of his emotional life, finding his moral center, trying to forgive himself, and accepting the gift of love.”
The novel turned a New York Times bestseller again in 2012 and was featured within the NY Times’ most notable books checklist for the yr.
The Starboard Sea Book Cover
Netflix Reportedly Developing Adaptation of Book
The information of a Netflix adaptation within the works got here in an LA Times article trying into Netflix’s efforts within the younger grownup house, taking a look at their present slate of films and sequence designed to be “the new CW for Gen Z”. The article additionally regarded into Netflix’s enlargement into occasions such because the just lately held Poguelandia live performance in Los Angeles.
The quote in full from the Los Angeles Times article is as follows:
“Netflix’s slate includes new youth-oriented programs such as “XO, Kitty,” a “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” spinoff; “One Piece,” a manga-based pirate journey; and “My Life With the Walter Boys,” based mostly on the Ali Novak e book of the identical title. New YA movies embody “True Spirit,” a few real-life sailor; and “Damsel,” starring Millie Bobby Brown (“Stranger Things”). In a deal not beforehand introduced, Netflix has a challenge in improvement impressed by Amber Dermont’s e book “The Starboard Sea.”
Beyond the passing point out within the article, after all, particulars are very mild past the actual fact it’s in improvement. Whether it’ll take the type of a sequence or a film is unclear and no expertise has been hooked up.
A copyright submitting from 2022 means that Anonymous Content can be behind the difference for Netflix.
The subsidiary firm of Propaganda Films has teamed with Netflix on many tasks previously and has just a few in improvement too. Prior tasks embody Maniac, 13 Reasons Why and The OA. Upcoming TV tasks embody Dumped, Boy Swallows Universe, Overlooked, East of Eden, and The 39 Steps. On the film facet, they’ve labored on Worth, The Stranger, and The Midnight Sky for Netflix.
We’ll look ahead to any further developments on The Starboard Sea as and once we get them.
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