EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is growing a function adaptation of A Thousand Boy Kisses, the bestselling novel written by the UK’s Tillie Cole, sources inform Deadline.

Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will direct from a script by Liz Maccie (Siren), with David Hoberman and Julie Meschko producing for Hobie Movies. The mission marks a reteam for Chbosky and Maccie on the heels of Nonnas, the comedy starring Vince Vaughn for Fifth Season, 1Community and Madison Wells, on which we had been first to report.

Initially revealed by Bloom Books in 2016, the novel’s protagonist is seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen, who in coming back from his native Norway to the sleepy city of Blossom Grove, Georgia, the place he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a baby, has only one factor on his thoughts. Why did the lady who was one half of his soul, who promised to attend faithfully for his return, lower him off and not using a phrase of rationalization? Rune’s coronary heart was damaged two years in the past when Poppy fell silent. When he discovers the reality, he finds that the best heartache is but to come back.

A global phenomenon, A Thousand Boy Kisses was on the New York Instances bestseller record for seven months. A sequel from Cole might be revealed later this 12 months.

Coming off of the aforementioned Nonnas, Chbosky is greatest identified for steering hit variations of the beloved novels The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Surprise for Summit Leisure and Lionsgate, respectively. Beforehand, he additionally directed an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Pricey Evan Hansen for Common, which starred authentic Broadway solid member Ben Platt.

Maccie was a author and co-producer on Freeform’s fantasy drama Siren, which ran for 3 seasons. Along with Nonnas, she’s penned titles like A Loud Home Christmas, Black and Blue, and The Thirst.

A New York Instances, USA At this time, and Amazon bestselling creator lively within the romance, chick-lit, and younger grownup genres, Cole has written a number of profitable novel collection, essentially the most well-known of that are the Hades Hangmen collection and the Candy Dwelling collection.

Veteran producer Hoberman launched Hobie Movies within the spring of 2023, as we had been first to report. Whereas overseeing the corporate, he’s persevering with to develop for Mandeville Movies, the storied manufacturing firm that he based in 1995 and co-owns with Todd Lieberman.

Chbosky is represented by WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Maccie by Gersh and Kaplan/Perrone Leisure; and Cole by WME and MacIntosh & Otis.