Red Production Company to adapt John Boyne’s The Echo Chamber after auction

StudioCanal’s UK-based Red Production Company has secured the rights to Irish author John Boyne’s latest novel The Echo Chamber.

Sarah Doole

After winning the rights at auction, Red Production Company will turn the book into a 10×30’ returnable series, which Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, will adapt for screen.

Published earlier this year, The Echo Chamber follows the privileged Cleverly family as they navigate the jungle of modern living. Little realising how precarious their privilege is, they are just one tweet away from disaster.

Five days is all it takes for the lives of the Cleverleys to be turned on their heads and come crashing down around their ears, proving that to really foul things up you only need a mobile phone.

Sarah Doole, CEO of Red Production Company, said: “I have always loved John Boyne’s beautiful writing, but The Echo Chamber was the most brilliant surprise. It is hilariously funny – a gasp-inducingly caustic and biting satire about cancel culture and modern Britain. It is a story that is absolutely for now and it takes a writer of John’s skill and confidence to pull it off.

“The wildly outrageous and vivid Cleverleys are a family begging to be brought to screen and their fall from grace is full of the most unexpected twists and surprises. It was described as a ‘British Schitt’s Creek on acid’ – and it is!”