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The BBC and Miramax are developing a television series adaptation of Michael Ondaatje ’s 1992 Booker Prize - winning novel The English Patient .
The BBC is developing a telecasting adaptation ofMichael Ondaatje ’s 1992 Booker Prize - winning novelThe English Patient . Miramax , which produced the original Oscar - winning 1996 moving picture , will be co - grow with Paramount Television Studios . RunandTaboowriterEmily Ballouwill be the writer of the serial .
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fit in toDeadline , this will be a new , overbold adaptation of Ondaatje ’s Holy Writ rather than a remaking of the 1996 pic that was pen and place by the lateAnthony Minghella . The movie The story follows four people brought together at an Italian villa during World War II , one of them a burn victim and the " English patient role " of the title . The history skip back and forth in time to slowly reveal who he really is and the tragical love affaire that wreak him to this point . He is care for by a Canadian Army nanny who arise a romance with a Sikh British Army sapper while an injured Canadian stealer on a mission of retaliation befriends them , suspecting the English patient is his fair game .
The movie won 9 Academy Award including Best Picture and was a big plenty in its day . Details from the movie became with child talk points in the days before the internet . Today they would be memes : Herodotus ' The Histories that the English patient role ( played byRalph Fiennesin the movie ) carried with him , Minghella ’s utilisation of the word " uxorious " in his Oscar speech in praise of his wife , and the media ’s scuffle to find out what it intend , how Fiennes ' burning make - up made him look like Odo fromStar Trek : Deep Space Nineand so on .
The English Patientis the previous British serial in the whole kit fromMiramax TVwhich has been ramp up its London - ground operations . It recently team up up withDominic Treadwell - Collinson an adaptation of Jim Cartwright ’s playThe Rise and Fall of Little Voice , which inspired the 1998 Miramax filmLittle Voice .
Ballou is an Australian / American poet , novelist , and screenwriter who lives in the UK . She was a supervising manufacturer onRun , the HBO series thatPhoebe Waller - Bridgeexecutive bring out , and a originative advisor onSteven Knight , Tom Hardy , andRidley Scott ’s seriesTaboo , which air on BBC and FX . She has also write on Starz’sBecoming Elizabethand AMC and Channel 4 co - proHumans . Hopefully , she will get a fresh take to the series .
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