Amber Entertainment and British supermarket chain Tesco have inked with bestselling crime novelist Karin Slaughter to produce dark comedy “Martin Misunderstood,” a direct-to-DVD feature that will be sold exclusively first at the retailer.
Atlanta Magazine | June 25, 2010
Fans of Atlanta thriller writer Karin Slaughter may soon be lining up at the cinema to catch a film adaptation of her darkly humorous murder mystery, “Martin Misunderstood.”
The Southern-set novella has been optioned for a film by Amber Entertainment.
While “Misunderstood” has only been officially released in the states as an audio book read by “Seinfeld” actor Wayne Knight, the paperback is a runaway hit overseas in the United Kingdom, Germany and Holland.
Contacted while on a book tour in Mobile Thursday, Slaughter was thoughtful enough to pause a moment to give Intel her ideal casting choices for the film version.
Via her literary agent Victoria Sanders, Slaughter spilled: “Celia Imrie is my dream choice for [Detective] Anther [Albada]. She’s a wonderful British actress and a good friend of mine. I could also happily see Helen Mirren as Martin’s mother. She can do anything. As for [nebbish Southern Toilet Supply toiler] Martin, he’s tough to cast because he’s both sympathetic and yet very annoying.”
Slaughter’s many local admirers will have a chance to congratulate her in person tonight when she’ll appear on a “Race & Literature: Writing Across Racial Lines” panel discussion with Mara Shalhoup, Denene Millner and Aliya S. King at the Auburn Avenue Research Library’s 4th floor auditorium downtown at 7 p.m.
GalleyCat | June 24, 2010
Thriller novelist Karin Slaughter inked a deal with Amber Entertainment to adapt her Martin Misunderstood novella into a film. The company has struck an “exclusive release” arrangement with the grocery and retail company Tesco.
The novella has only been released in the US as an audiobook, but the paperback has sold more than a million paperback copies in Holland and hundreds of thousands of copies in the UK and Germany.
Here’s more about the film’s unique distribution deal, from the release: “Martin Misunderstood will be part of an innovative and perhaps paradigm shifting deal with the European retail giant Tesco, the 2nd most profitable retailer in the world. The film will have an exclusive release through Tesco and will then be distributed throughout the rest of the territories.”
Publishers Marketplace | June 24, 2010
Film rights to Karin Slaughter’s crime novella, MARTIN MISUNDERSTOOD, available only as an audiobook in the US (but sold as a book in the UK, Germany and Holland), to Ileen Maisel and Shani Hinton at Amber Entertainment, for exclusive initial release through Tesco, by Angela Cheng Caplan at Cheng Caplan Company, and Victoria Sanders at Victoria Sanders & Associates.
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