Wellington writer Emily Perkins is adapting her award-winning novel for a TV series optioned by the makers of and and the star of Netflix show . Hollywood site Deadline (headline, yesterday: “ Co-Creators Recall Standing Up to NBC Executive Who Objected to Monica Sleeping With Someone On A First Date”) broke the news in an exclusive report last week, saying that and star Simon Bakker will direct all episodes of “the hot book”. Perkins’ vastly entertaining send-up of a rich and anxious New Zealand couple won the Acorn Prize for Fiction at this year’s Ockham national book awards.
It earned her $65,000. The TV rights and whatever other proceeds if it gets greenlighted – Perkins has signed on as co-producer – may earn her a bit more than that. How vulgar to discuss money, but the theme of is money, money, money – as I mentioned to the author when I phoned her on Sunday, the theme of much of her work is money, money, money.
Actually, she brought it up herself. She said, “This is going back into the history of our friendship, but I well remember that time we were talking and you came out with the provocation that my books are all about money.” I said, “Do you think that’s true?” She said, “Hm – it’s more a case that I love writing about the relationship my characters have with money.
” I first called her on Saturday, but she was about to get ready to go out to dinner, at Ortega, with her husband, painter Karl Maughan. When I phoned the next day, s.