Synchronicity takes on Bloody Women

Glasgow-based indie Synchronicity Films has optioned the rights to Australian author Helen Fitzgerald’s 2009 novel Bloody Women, which it is developing into a dark comedy-thriller.

Adapted by writer and journalist Lorna Martin (Women on the Verge), Bloody Women (8×45’) will follow a woman who, on the morning of her wedding, is taken to a police station and shown the severed penis of her ex-boyfriend.

Confirming that she slept with him just hours before his death, in the days leading up to her wedding, what she can’t confirm is whether or not she is responsible for mutilating and murdering him.

Bloody Women is the third Helen FitzGerald novel Synchonicity has optioned, following Ash Mountain and The Cry.

Claire Mundell, founder and creative director at Synchronicity Films, said: “We’d probably option every Helen FitzGerald novel if we could, but Bloody Women is definitely one of our favourites – a gloriously playful, hooky page-turner with its tongue firmly in its cheek and an idiosyncratic but instantly loveable female lead.”

All3Media International, which has a first-look deal with Synchronicity, holds the global rights to the project.