AMC Developing Cronenberg Novel Consumed as Potential Series

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Now, this? This is the kind of news we love to hear… I mean, everyone knows there just aren’t enough cannibals on TV! Am I right?

In any event, AMC is eying David Cronenberg’s 2014 novel Consumed for a series. Per Deadline, “Fear the Walking Dead” showrunner Dave Erickson has teamed with “Lucifer” executive producer Sheri Elwood to develop the book as an hourlong drama for the network, where Erickson is under an overall deal. (As you may recall, he’s stepping down as showrunner at the end of the current third season of “Fear” but will remain as an exec producer on the series.)

Erickson and Elwood will pen the adaptation and showrun; and the pair will also executive produce with Cronenberg, who may direct, and Cronenberg’s longtime collaborator Robert Lantos of Serendipity Point, which produced Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises.

Consumed is described as “a mind-bending psychological thriller that follows two journalists who set out to solve the cannibalistic murder of a controversial Parisian philosopher.” It was published by Scribner Sons.

Book Synopsis (available on Amazon):
Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding a famous couple, Célestine and Aristide, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead, and Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. Yet, Naomi sets off to find him, and as she delves deeper into the couple’s lives, she discovers the news story may only skim the surface of the disturbing acts they performed together.

Journalist Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnár’s patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s and travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.

These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.

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