Bonneville’s character, Brighton-based detective Roy Grace, must find this living coffin while coping with the mysterious disappearance of his wife.īonneville said: “I instinctively feel that my strengths as an actor chime with the principal qualities found in Roy Grace and I’m tremendously excited at the prospect of bringing him off the page and onto the screen.”Ī hedge fund and other private investors are lined up to put money into Dead Simple. BBC Scotland also made noises about adapting the crime series for TV after the books were optioned by Company Pictures ( Skins).ĭirector Roman Polanski has also circled Dead Simple, a race-against-time thriller about a bridegroom buried alive after a stag night prank goes wrong. ITV Studios was planning to adapt his Roy Grace books for television but James took the rights back as the development process stretched on too long. His latest book in the series outsold both James Patterson and Jeffrey Deaver in the UK, pipping Deaver’s James Bond novel to number one on the Sunday Times Best-seller list. James is one of the UK’s bestselling crime writers, whose books have sold more than 10m copies to date worldwide translated into 34 languages. Simpson and Lloyd will be in Berlin talking to prospective sales companies. James has partnered with producer James Simpson and entertainment lawyer Leighton Lloyd of Los Angeles-based law firm Gipson Hoffman & Pancione to develop the project.

Swiss TV scriptwriter Daniel Eckhart is adapting the screenplay. Peter James, the British thriller writer, is developing Dead Simple, the first novel in his bestselling crime series, as a feature.

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