Foster’s ‘The Hush’ optioned for TV

Producer Clark Peterson and his company Story and Film, Inc. have optioned Sara Foster’s 2021 thriller The Hush (HarperCollins) for development as a television series, ‘in a competitive situation’, according to Deadline.

Peterson (Monster, Rampart) will serve as executive producer along with Jess Jacobs (Soul City), Stacy Milbourn (Yellowstone) and Chris Bellant of Established Artists, and Foster will co-executive produce the series.

Acquired by HarperCollins Australia in 2021, The Hush is ‘a new breed of near-future thriller, an unflinching story of a society at a tipping point, infused with the power of female friendship and the strength of maternal bonds’, according to the publisher. It follows a group of women who join forces with a midwife to save her daughter, the latest in a string of pregnant teens that have mysteriously disappeared amid a terrifying new epidemic.

‘The Hush is a mind-blowing thriller, but it also is so timely in its exploration of women’s rights and relationships,’ said Peterson. ‘Sara’s novel takes female empowerment to a whole new level.’

‘I wrote The Hush with a multigenerational cast of strong female characters who are determined to defy the odds, subvert the norms of oppression and surveillance, and circumnavigate the powers of government—all while finding new, innovative ways to come together and rise above the people and system that seek to dominate them,’ said Foster. ‘I’m thrilled that the story is in such immensely talented hands … and I can’t wait to see these characters, so close to my heart, come alive on the screen.’

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