EXCLUSIVE: Karga Seven Pictures, the Turkish-American producer backed by Peter Chernin‘s North Road Firm, has acquired Simon Sebag Montefiore’s e-book The World: A Family History Of Humanity.
Karga Seven will adapt the sweeping historic e-book, which chronicles the world’s nice dynasties throughout everything of human historical past, right into a tv collection.
Specializing in households together with the Habsburgs, Nehrus, and Borgias, A Household Historical past Of Humanity examines historical past via their palace intrigues, amorous affairs, and imperfect lives.
Revealed by Knopf within the U.S., Montefiore’s e-book was a New York Occasions and Sunday Occasions bestseller. The Occasions of London named it amongst its greatest historical past books of 2022.
Karga Seven focuses on docu and historic dramas, with current tasks together with Netflix’s Testomony: The Story of Moses and Rise of Empires: Ottoman.
The A Household Historical past Of Humanity tv collection can be government produced by Emre Şahin, Sarah Wetherbee, Sam Anzel, and Fikret Manoglu, together with Montefiore as a marketing consultant and government producer.
Anzel, Karga Seven’s SVP of worldwide tv and movie, mentioned: “Simon’s outstanding skill to distill the huge sweep of world historical past right into a single, accessible quantity is nothing wanting extraordinary. As we turned its pages, exploring all elements of the world and essentially the most highly effective dynasties to ever exist, we couldn’t assist however envision how this almost inconceivable achievement could possibly be dropped at life on display screen.”
Simon Shaps of Georgina Capel Associates brokered the deal.
