While at Cannes, there was a sobering missing child awareness campaign with celebrity folk involved. It’s perhaps the worst thing that can occur to any parent – some might say that death of a child is less painful. Variety reports that Newmarket Films has acquired the film rights to Michelle Richmond's novel and tapped Semi Chellas to adapt. This could fit into guilt trap and dramatic mold of A Map of the World.
The Year of Fog is based on the San Francisco-set novel that follows a young woman whose fiance's child vanishes when she momentarily looks away to take a photograph. The couple then struggles through blame, loss and grief while constructing their own ideas about the girl's fate.
Newmarket will produce and fully finance the bigscreen project. P. Jennifer Dana and Andrew Lauren of Andrew Lauren Prods. and Newmarket's Aaron Ryder will serve as producers, with Newmarket principals Chris J. Ball and William Tyrer exec producing.
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