Alma Harel Director of the sci-fi adaptation of ‘Nightingale’ for Searchlight Pictures

dear boy Director Alma Harel created his next project with an adaptation of Walter Tevis’ sci-fi novel a mocking bird.

The Searchlight Pictures project will be produced by J. Miles Dale, who created Searchlight Projects. nightmare alley s water shape, and Robert Schwartz (Nevada) With Harel and her partner Christopher Legette.

The action of Thevis’ novel takes place in a future where civilization is in decline, saturated with electronics and drugs. Android Suicide, a man learning to read and a woman team up to help humanity rediscover itself. Tevis’ 1963 novel The man who fell to the ground It was recently adapted into a sci-fi sci-fi series starring Chivetel Ejiofor and Naomi Harris.

Taylor Friedman and Cornelia Burley oversee Searchlight, which is planning a theatrical release for the project.

“I will never forget when I first read it. a mocking bird He was 24 years old on the shores of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. “This book changed my life and I’ve been doing it for over a decade,” said Harel. “I knew Searchlight was the perfect home for me and I’m excited that they’re working with me to make it happen on the big screen.

Har’el, produced by WME, Independent Talent Group, Range Media Partners and Gang Tire, is currently in production on the Apple series. lady at the lake, With Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o.