Today, news broke of his latest effort, which will see him tackling horrors on the small screen.
Roth is teaming up with Netflix and Gaumont for an adaptation of Hemlock Grove, a novel by Brian McGreevy. Netflix/Gaumont are producing a 13-episode series of which Roth will executive produce and direct.
Never heard of Hemlock Grove? Well, that’s understandable. The book isn’t due out until March. McGreevy is currently working on the screenplay with Lee Shipman. Head inside for a description…
Publisher Ferrar, Straus and Giroux offers this plot crunch: The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill. A manhunt ensuesthough the authorities arent sure if its a man they should be looking for.
Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding biotech facility owned by the Godfrey familytheir personal fortune and the local economy having moved on from Pittsburgh steelwhere some suspect that biological experiments of the most unethical kind take place. Others turn to Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy trailer-trash kid who has told impressionable highschool classmates that hes a werewolf. Or perhaps its Roman, the son of the late J. R. Godfrey, who rules the adolescent social scene with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his superior status unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister, Shelley, whose monstrous medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence, and his otherworldly, sexy control freak of a mother, Olivia. As the crime goes unsolved and the police seem more and more willing to believe any outlandish rumor, Peter and Roman decide the only way to save their own skins is to find the killer themselves. Along the way they uncover local secrets and designs that are much bigger than some small-town murder.
Gaumont is also developing a Hannibal NBC television series with Bryan Fuller.
Source: Deadline
