EXCLUSIVE: Yeardley Smith’s Paperclip Ltd is looking to turn Tom Wood’s forensic science bestseller ‘Ruxton: The First Modern Murder’ into an unscripted podcast and a limited scripted series
The company, which Smith, best known as the voice of Lisa Simpson, set up with Ben Cornwell, optioned the rights to Wood’s book, which was shortlisted for Saltire Society of Scotland’s National Book Awards 2022.
While book to TV adaptations is a well-trodden path, adding an unscripted podcast into the mix is an unusual step, but comes as Hollywood is stepping up its interest in the audio medium., which launched in 2017, has seen 1M downloads per month.Ruxton: The First Modern Murder describes the 1935 disappearance of a glamorous young wife and her dutiful maid, whose deaths would result in one of the most complex investigations the world had ever seen. The gruesome murders captured headlines worldwide at the time, and behind-the-scenes, scientific history was being made through the groundbreaking work of Scottish forensic scientists who developed new techniques that would change the course of detective work globally for the next near-century.
Smith and Cornwell will exec produce the podcast with Wood and are also developing the book as a limited series.
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