Producers Scott Rudin and Allison Owen will turn Jamila Gavin’s novel The Coram Boy into a feature for Miramax Films, reports Variety.
The adaptation has been set as a co-production of Scott Rudin Productions, Owen’s Ruby Films and BBC Films, in partnership with Miramax and the U.K. Film Council.
The novel — which won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award — is an epic adventure about orphans raised in Britain’s Coram hospice in 1741.
The novel was separately turned into a play by Helen Edmundson that was a hit at London’s National Theater and opens May 2 at Broadway’s Imperial Theater.
