EXCLUSIVE: A24 UK looks to have emerged victorious among more than a dozen suitors to option rights to Nick Brucker’s upcoming novel White Smoke, with plans to adapt it into a TV series. A24 will produce alongside Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch and his SunnyMarch production company. Cumberbatch is also attached to star.
White Smoke, a heist novel to be published in 2027, is set among a group of duplicitous con men and thieves determined to steal the Vatican’s most remarkable treasures during a papal conclave.
Sources say that even though the book won’t hit shelves till next year, the town was
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