NETFLIX UK TO TURN BESTSELLING NOVELS HALF BAD, LOCKWOOD & CO, SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE INTO SUPERNATURAL AND FANTASY TV SERIES

NETFLIX UNVEILS

SLATE OF UK TV PROJECTS

Joe Barton will adapt Half Bad

The slate actually includes seven new shows to be produced in UK including one with Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean): short form, 10-part comedy series MAN VS BEE which finds him house sitting a luxurious mansion while duking it out with a pesky bee. Andy Serkis will, meanwhile, produce series adaptation of Sally Green's HALF BAD trilogy following Sixteen year old Nathan, the illegitimate son of the world’s most feared witch. He’s spent his whole life being monitored for signs he may follow the same destructive path as his father. But as tensions escalate, the old boundaries between “good” and “bad” fray and Nathan will discover what sort of person he truly is!

Sophie Petzal will adapt Turton's book

THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE best selling novel by Stuart Turton will be turned into a seven episode series by Sophie Petzal: it is a mind bending murder mystery. All set within the grounds of a sprawling country estate, this high concept thriller presents an intriguing puzzle – how do you solve a murder when every time you are getting close to the answer, you wake up in someone else’s body?

LOCKWOOD & CO will be another popular book series to be turned into an eight episode show. Joe Cornish will adapt Jonathan Stroud's novels set in London, where the most gifted teenage ghost hunters venture nightly into perilous combat with deadly

Joe Cornish will turn Lockwood &Co into an eight episode series

spirits: amidst the many corporate, adult-run agencies one stands alone: independent of any commercial imperative or adult supervision – a tiny startup, run by two teenage boys and a newly arrived, supremely psychically gifted girl, a renegade trio destined to unravel a mystery that will change the course of history!