Burnet’s Bloody Project gets TV remake

Scottish prodco Synchronicity Films is developing a crime thriller based on Graeme Macrae Burnet novel His Bloody Project after securing the film and TV rights.

The book, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize this year, is published by UK-based Contraband and explores the sanity of a teenager convicted of a brutal triple murder in 1869 in a remote Scottish crofting community.

Early discussions are underway with a major UK broadcaster to air the TV version, with screenwriters being considered.

Claire Mundell, creative director at Synchronicity, said: “We are delighted to have discovered this wonderful novel on our own doorstep. It’s also great to work with an indie publisher who also believes in backing undiscovered talent as much as we do.”

Synchronicity is currently working on a six-part, domestic-set thriller The Cry for BBC1.