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Posted in: TV | Tagged: City of the Lost, entertainment, Julie Pucklin, Kelley Armstrong, television, Temple Street
Kelley Armstrong's 'City of the Lost' to be Adapted for Television
Temple Street Productions, the company behind Orphan Black and Queer As Folk, have acquired the TV rights to Kelley Armstrong's Rockton mystery novels. The three book set will be adapted by Julie Puckrin (Killjoys) who will serve as showrunner and executive produce along with Kerry Appleyard, Temple Street's SVP. David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg of Boat Rocker Media (Temple Street's parent company) will also executive produce, Deadline reports.
Armstrong is an extremely prolific writer, having penned over 30 novels, most of which are in the fantasy genre. The Rockton series are crime thrillers made up of City of the Lost, A Darkness Absolute, and This Fallen Prey, all of which have come out in the last two years.
The stories are based in a Utopian commune and survivalist outpost… Rockton. The place is something different to everyone based on their own past. To some it's an extreme adventure and for others a penal colony. Rockton takes in those looking to escape their lives, this includes homicide detective Casey Duncan who is trying to help her best friend escape a brutal ex-husband. But Casey has her own past to run from… before becoming a cop, she killed someone. And once there, Casey discovers that Rockton needs a police detective after having its first ever murder.
Puckrin describes the series:
The setting is uniquely Canadian, but the issues are universal — the idea that you can hide from everything except who you really are. As a secret city where desperate people go to disappear, Rockton is the perfect crucible to explore what happens when we are forced to confront the difficult truths about ourselves.
Armstrong's first novel, Bitten, was published in 2001… meaning she has published 30+ books in less than 18 years.
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