The Taking of Annie Thorne
The Taking of Annie Thorne is based on the novel by C.J. Tudor.
The thrilling second novel from the best-selling author of The Chalk Man tells the story of a young girl who disappears from her home one night. After a frantic and extensive search, she suddenly and mysteriously reappears but she is not quite the same, she is changed; but by who or what?
Years later, her brother Joe returns to their hometown of Arnhill searching for answers, only to uncover far more sinister secrets than he could ever have imagined.
His journey to seek redemption for his future forces him to delve into his past, which he had been desperately trying to bury and forget.
The adaptation sees White Boar Films team up with award-winning production company The Imaginarium, the creatives behind Breathe and Mowgli.
Writer Zara Symes has been commissioned to adapt the novel for television. Zara is a filmmaker whose writing focuses on gender identity and sexuality through horror, legend and folklore.
Her feminist horror anthology Her Horror has been greenlit for production by AMC for Shudder.
The Fens
Inspired by the gripping, best-selling ‘Jackman and Evans’ series by acclaimed writer Joy Ellis, The Fens is an unsettling, atmospheric crime thriller set in the remote, supernatural and hauntingly cinematic landscape of the Lincolnshire Fenlands.
D.I. Jackman and D.S. Marie Evans lead a team of officers, detectives and psychologists investigating numerous unexplained events, vanishings and murders. The Fens will follow the lives of its core characters, both at home and at work, focusing predominantly on the two disparate police officers at the heart of the show. The central investigation in the first season will follow a sequence of abductions and the apparently ritualistic murders of teenagers, leading Jackman and Evans into the most shocking and horrific case they have ever faced.
Evans will seek to find answers to the unexplained death of her husband, with the help of her colleague Jackman, newly returned to the Fens following his dismissal from MI5. While Jackman's past just won’t stay dead, Marie is yearning for answers, but the two of them are faced with a nemesis whose criminal mind is so complex that they will struggle to keep their team, their personal lives and their sanity intact.
The screenplay will be written by BAFTA nominated writer Tim Dynevor, best known for writing over 300 episodes of ‘Emmerdale’. ‘The Drowning’ for Channel 5 and ‘Unstoppable’, also for Channel 5, coming February 2022.
The adaptation sees White Boar Films team up with Gina Carter at Sprout Pictures and Adam Barth and Nicola Söderlund at Ecchorights Media