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Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories Adapting Author Fiona McIntosh’s ‘The Pearl Thief’ As Film; ‘One Life’ Screenwriter Nick Drake Attached


Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories has teamed with Monica Saunders-Weinberg to adapt Fiona McIntosh's novel 'The Pearl Thief' as a feature film.

Synopsis reads: “The stakes are high in this gripping novel set between the city of Prague and its snowy woodlands on the cusp of World War II, and later in the streets of Paris, London, and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire in 1963.” Saunders-Weinberg is the co-owner and Deputy Chair of Australia-U.S. real estate investment firm The Terrace Tower Group and leads social impact initiative The Growth Project as a founding partner. To have a titan of the screen industry in Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories team, together with the passion of Hana Black Production’s Monica Saunders-Weinberg and her deeply felt commitment to The Pearl Thief, I know these two strong women understand Katerina.

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