John Morayniss’ Blink49 Studios and also Sex Education And Learning manufacturer Eleven are developing a collection adjustment of writer M.L. Rio’s unique If We Were Bad Guys
Guide, a dramatic thriller embeded in a special arts sunroom, has actually marketed greater than 180,000 duplicates in English considering that posting in 2017 and also is offered in 14 languages.
If We Were Bad Guys adheres to 7 young Shakespearean stars at an elite university where competitors is strong, competition threatens, and also the line in between life and also art is alarmingly slim. When catastrophe strikes in their last year and also one shows up dead, the others encounter their best acting obstacle yet: encouraging the authorities, and also themselves, that they are blameless.
Canada-headquarted Blink49 and also the UK’s Eleven will certainly co-produce, with Exec Producers Jamie Campbell exec manufacturer and also Jennifer Select the co-executive manufacturer for Eleven. Carolyn Newman and also Virginia Rankin of Blink49 Studios are additionally director manufacturers, in addition to Rio, Tony-nominated manufacturer Christopher Maring of Centimeters Phase Productions, Andrew Williamson, Henrik Meyer and also Enuka Okuma.
No author is yet affixed, and also global circulation information have not yet been established.
Blink49, which previous eOne television principal Morayniss established in 2014, presently has programs such as an adjustment of Marissa Stapley’s charming dramatization Points To Do When It’s Drizzling on its slate, while Eleven is aligning the similarity BBC, Sony and also Stan co-pro 10 Extra Pound Poms, concerning British family members that started brand-new lives in Australia in 1956 under the Australian federal government’s migration system of the moment.