A24 Nabs Oprah’s Book Club Selection ‘Dream State’ for TV Adaptation (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter
Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterGloria Sanchez Productions is behind the project based on Eric Puchner’s novel.
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Rick Porter
Television Writer
A24 is the newest member of Oprah’s Book Club.
The company has acquired rights to Eric Puchner’s novel Dream State in a competitive situation and will adapt the book for TV. Gloria Sanchez Productions is also behind the project; Flora Birnbaum (Russian Doll, Impeachment: American Crime Story) and Sam Sackeroff will adapt the novel.
Published Tuesday by Doubleday, Dream State is the latest selection of Oprah’s Book Club (Puchner is set to discuss the book with Oprah Winfrey on her podcast). The novel spans 50 years and is set against the backdrop of a “rapidly warming” Montana. It “explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the past — both our own and the ones we’ve inherited,” the publisher’s description reads. “Written with humor, precision, and enormous heart, both a love letter and an elegy to the American West, Dream State is a thrillingly ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence.”
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Puchner is the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Model Home and short story collections Last Day on Earth and Music Through the Floor.
Dream State will join a TV roster at A24 that also includes HBO’s Euphoria, Netflix’s Beef and Mo, and Hulu’s Ramy, as well as the upcoming Superfakes (Peacock) and The Spot (Hulu). The new project doesn’t have an outlet attached yet.
Birnbaum will serve as showrunner on the project and executive produce with Sackeroff, Puchner, and Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum and Alix Taylor for Gloria Sanchez.
Birnbaum and Puchner are both repped by WME.Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every dayInside the business of TV with breaking news, expert analysis and showrunner interviewsSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSend us a tip using our anonymous form.
