Both will serve as exec producers, and the latter will direct the pilot. Orlean will adapt the book for TV alongside James Ponsoldt (“The End of the Tour”). “More than thirty years later, the mystery surrounding how the fire began remains,” the source hints. Over 400,000 books were lost and 700,000 damaged. Released in 2018, Orlean’s non-fiction book investigates the fire that raged for more than seven hours in the Los Angeles Public Library on April 28, 1986. Less than a year after HBO debuted an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic sci-fi novel “Fahrenheit 451” comes word that “Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, in association with Brillstein Entertainment, have acquired the TV rights to Susan Orlean’s best-seller ‘The Library Book,'” Variety reports. Brace yourselves, book lovers: another story about book burning is coming to the small screen, and this one is based on a true story.
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