EXCLUSIVE: Working Title Films has optioned rights to Kirsten King’s debut novel A Good Person, with Daisy Edgar-Jones attached to produce the movie adaptation. King is adapting the script, with Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner producing alongside Edgar-Jones.
“We were immediately drawn to Kirsten’s novel for its wit, dark humor and subversive spirit, and we look forward to bringing its unlikely heroine, Lillian, to life on screen,” says Fellner, co-chair of Working Title. “Having just worked with Daisy as a leading actor in Sense and Sensibility, now partnering with her as a producer marks an exciting new chapter in our creative relationship, and we can’t wait to see this film fully realized.”
The novel follows Lillian, a vengeful and jilted lover who gets more than she bargained for after she performs a drunken hex on her ex-situationship who actually ends up dead. The novel will be published on March 31.
“I’m so thrilled to be partnering with Daisy and the Working Title team on this adaptation,” said King. “From early creative conversations it was abundantly clear that my deeply flawed main character was in good hands.”
Working Title Films is developing the project, with Elinor Kahn, Director of Development LA, running point.
King’s credits as a screenwriter include Crush for Hulu, as well as the animated comedy The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy for Prime Video. King is repped by UTA, 3Arts and Nicola Barr at Rye Literary for books.
Edgar-Jones is represented by UTA, B-Side and Sloane, Offer, Weber, Dern.
Working Title Films, co-chaired by Bevan and Fellner, has created more than 130 films that have grossed over $9 billion at the global box office, winning 15 Oscars. Recent films include Kate Winslet’s Goodbye June, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Its upcoming productions include Finding Emily starring Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn; Crime 101 starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan and Monica Barbaro; Pressure starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser; The Sheep Detectives starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson; Positano starring Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldaña; Werwulf starring Lily-Rose Depp and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Sense and Sensibility also starring Edgar-Jones.