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‘The Natural Way of Things’ optioned for film

The film rights to Charlotte Wood’s 2015 novel The Natural Way of Things (A&U) have been optioned by producers Katia Nizic and Emma Dockery.

Nizic and Dockery will work on a ‘micro-budget’ film adaptation of the novel with production and distribution company Goodship, which support films through partnerships with philanthropic, not-for-profit and business communities. Nizic’s production company Twice Shy Productions has produced several short films and is adapting Leanne Hall’s YA novel This is Shyness (Text) as a web and TV series.

Nizic and Dockery told Books+Publishing their pitch for the rights included stories of everyday misogyny from their friends to ‘demonstrate that this book was relevant to everyone’. ‘We thought we would have two or three responses but stories kept rolling in,’ they said. ‘It made us angry that women everywhere, even in one of the most privileged countries in the world, faced this day after day.’

Wood told Inside Film that Nizic and Dockery’s proposal was ‘passionate, alive, ambitious and original’. ‘Their astonishingly detailed pitch showed me that in a deep, urgent way they had already taken real ownership of my story, and had an equally desperate desire to make something powerful and fresh with it on film,’ said Wood.

The producers said they are working on a micro-budget film as it will allow them time to develop the script and select the actors, and give them ‘a greater say in how we market and distribute the film’.

For more information on the film, click here.

 

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