‘Netflix has teamed with Scott Free on an adaptation of the Susanna Jones novel The Earthquake Bird.
Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough are finishing deals to star for Wash Westmoreland, who wrote the script and will direct. The Earthquake Bird is a Tokyo-set female-driven noir thriller that tells the story of a young female expat who is suspected of murder after her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle with a handsome local photographer. The project originally took root at Amazon Studios, but Netflix will make the picture and has set a May production start in Tokyo and Sado Island.
Scott Free’s Kevin Walsh and Michael Pruss will produce alongside Ann Ruark and Twenty-First City’s Georgina Pope. Ridley Scott will be exec producer.
UTA, Actors in Scandinavia and Tavistock Wood rep Vikander who’s just been attached to a Morten Tyldum-directed adaptation of The Marsh King’s Daughter at Black Bear. Keough is repped by WME and Thirty Three Management.
The Earthquake Bird won several awards including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger Award for newly published authors. ‘
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