Marshall, who optioned “Hamnet” before its publication in 2020, has now secured the screen rights to O’Farrell’s upcoming novel “Land” for her London-based production company Hera Pictures.
Due for release in June, “Land” is set in 1865 and follows Tomás and his reluctant son Liam as they work on Ireland’s Ordnance Survey in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. As they traverse a country still shaped by loss, displacement and unresolved history, the novel explores themes of separation and reunion, colonization and resistance, buried histories and survival — all anchored in what’s described as a “profound father-son relationship and a vividly realized Irish landscape.”
The novel, O’Farrell’s 10th,…
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