A24 Set To Develop TV Series From Magnolia Parks Novels
BookTok is winning this week.
On the heels of the announcement that an adaptation of Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios, A24 has acquired the rights to Jessa Hastings' Magnolia Parks.
The self-published series that went viral on TikTok has been described as Gossip Girl in high society London.
From the book's website, the synopsis reads:
She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain's most photographed bad-boy lothario who broke her heart. But Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. They're in the stars... just suspended in a strange kind of love that looks like hurting each other a lot of the time: She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of their every sad endeavour to get over one another, it's still each other they crawl back to. But their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they've built; a world where neither has to ever let the other go completely. As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they've been avoiding all their lives: how many loves do you really get in a lifetime?
A24 has previously produced the successful TV show Euphoria, as well as Oscar winning films such as Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Hastings made a smart move retaining the film and TV rights as part of her publishing deal made last year with Orion Fiction, which holds world rights, while Bloom Books has the U.S. rights.
There are currently four books in the series:
Magnolia Parks
Daisy Haites
Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
Which means there's plenty of scope to make the show long lasting by diving deep into the Magnolia Parks universe.
