Turkish-British author Elif Shafak‘s Booker Prize-nominated novel “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Unusual World,” which is ready on this planet of Istanbul intercourse staff, will probably be tailored right into a function movie by Madrid-based ISB Movies and Turkey’s Limon Movie.
Shafak, who’s Turkey’s most generally learn feminine creator, is thought for her huge physique of labor spanning a dozen novels which have been translated into 50 languages. They usually delve into themes of human rights, freedom of expression and identification. “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Unusual World” is the primary of her novels to be tailored right into a function movie.
Greater than a decade in the past, she moved from Turkey to the U.Ok. after her e book “The Bastard of Istanbul” – which touches on the mass killings of Armenians through the closing years of the Ottoman Empire – led her to be tried for “insulting Turkishness,” for which she was finally acquitted.
Shafak’s taboo-breaking “10 Minutes 38 Seconds” takes its cue from the scientifically confirmed premise that our brains can stay lively for greater than 10 minutes after loss of life. It’s the story of Leila — or “Tequila Leila,” as she is thought — a intercourse employee in Istanbul who’s murdered in the beginning of the story. As her mind continues to perform, she has a collection of recollections and flashbacks. Woven into the narrative are remembrances of 5 cherished pals that had grow to be her surrogate household after her more and more spiritual father disowned her.
ISB Movies is a just lately established manufacturing and financing firm that could be a standalone offshoot of Madrid-based Worldwide Sports activities Broadcasting, which makes a speciality of broadcasting and distribution of reside sports activities occasions together with the Olympics. The shingle is headed by U.S. producer Paul Miller, a former Doha Movie Institute head of finance whose manufacturing credit embrace David Gordon Inexperienced’s “Snow Angels,” John Travolta starrer “A Love Tune for Bobby Lengthy” and, extra just lately, Saudi Arabian drama “Norah,” which was the nation’s first movie to make the minimize for the Cannes official choice.
Different ISB Movies tasks in varied phases embrace Lone Scherfig’s “The Film Teller” and upcoming Poland-set Chilly Battle thriller “The Winter of the Crow,” starring Lesley Manville (“The Crown”).
Limon Movie’s productions embrace “Avlu,” the favored Turkish adaption of Fremantle’s hit Australian drama “Wentworth,” which is a Netflix Turkish unique and set in a feminine jail in Istanbul.
“We’re excited to mix our worldwide outlook and financing assets with Limon’s in-depth data of Turkish tradition and manufacturing,” ISB Movies CEO Ursula Romero mentioned in a press release. “This partnership guarantees to create a singular fusion of inventive visions that can elevate the variation of Shafak’s work.”
Miller, who’s shepherding this uncommon case of cinematic collaboration between Europe and Turkey, is at the moment within the technique of discovering a screenwriter to transpose “10 Minutes 38 Seconds” for the large display screen.
Commented Limon CEO Hayri Aslan, “I look ahead to the beginning of a constructive collaboration with ISB Movies to create a very particular and profitable movie.”
