‘Prince of Tides’ TV Adaptation In The Works At Apple From Tate Taylor

The Prince of Tides is the latest high-profile feature film that is being eyed for a television spinoff.

Deadline understands that The Help director Tate Taylor is developing a small-screen adaptation of the Barbra Streisand-fronted film for Apple.

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The project is believed to be in the very early stages of development.

The film, which was released in 1991, tells the story of a New York psychiatrist, played by Streisand, treating an emotionally scarred woman, played by Blythe Danner, who finds it helpful to discuss her South Carolina family’s troubled history with the woman’s twin brother, played by Nick Nolte, He and the psychiatrist find themselves drawn together by their equally turbulent pasts, and they form an alliance which ultimately leads to romance.

Based on Pat Conroy’s book and adapted for screen by Conroy and Becky Johnston, the film was directed by Streisand.

The series comes from Sony Pictures Television, whose sister movie arm Columbia Pictures released the film, with Taylor writing and exec producing.

It is Taylor’s latest project for Apple; he is currently exec producing Mrs. American Pie, which stars Kristen Wiig and Allison Janney, for the streamer.

Taylor was also behind Fox’s Filthy Rich, the Kim Cattrall-fronted soapy drama that ran for one season on Fox. On the feature side, Taylor also directed Chadwick Boseman-fronted James Brown biopic Get On Up and Emily Blunt thriller The Girl on the Train as well as Ma, Ava and Breaking News In Yuba County.

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