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US producer acquires screen rights to ‘Shantaram’

Producers Anonymous Content and Paramount TV have acquired screen rights to Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram and its sequel, The Mountain Shadow.

Deadline Hollywood reports that the producers plan to turn the novel into a TV series.

Anonymous Content producer Steve Golin said they are ‘excited to have been entrusted with bringing this epic novel to television together and to have the opportunity to explore Gregory David Roberts’ rich story that is so beloved by audiences worldwide’.

The deal was made by Joe Regal of Regal Hoffmann & Associates.

 

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